http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/06-anti-thesaurus.shtml
This is a proposal for a meta-tag to tell search engines to ignore certain words on a page when scoring relevancy. Among other things, it mentions robots.txt as problematic: "Also, returning to the robots.txt standard: it may be underused simply because it is a security breach (the file openly lists URLs that webmasters do not want visible through search engines). It is possible that many more webmasters would be using it properly, if not for that security problem." My opinion is that this is enormously impractical, but perhaps there's the seed of a good idea in it. However, it seems to me that if the authors of a page would actually bother to create meta-tags to increase search efficiency, it would be much easier (semi-automated, even) to create a tag containing the *most* relevant words, not the least. Nick Arnett Phone/fax: 408-904-7198 -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
