> > > Inevitably, there will be certain pages using TMPL_INCLUDE tags. I imagine
> > > that most of these will contain data that will not want to be searched for,
> > > such as footers, and therefore my filter program can simply ignore
> > > them. However, I don't feel safe in making the blanket assumption that
> > > /all/ included files don't need to be searchable.
> >
> >Now you've lost me. There's lots of stuff in an HTML page that
> >shouldn't be searched for. Stuff like headers and footers in includes
> >is just the tip of the ice-berg. Why obsess over this?
>
> I want to give content authors more control over what portions of a
> document are searched for.
This is a common mistake that information creators think 'is a good thing'... The web got popular for a number of reasons - one of them being "full text indexing of all content" (including headers/footers/etc).
Why? There is no useful information in headers/footers. By nature of using a templating system, they are the same on every page in a given section. Including them in search results only increases the noise and the amount of information that needs to be indexed.
The point is that, it is the user of the system that wants to find the information - not the author telling you what you can and cant search for. Classic example -> books used to have (and still do) an index in the last couple of pages of the book, yet the user could never find what they were looking for; until the book made it onto CDROM at which point full-text-searching was possible.
Almost every piece of a book is useful to search. But what good would it be to search for a chapter heading? That information is already given to you in the table of contents.
-> Full text searching is a _much better_ solution to search problems than indexing on what YOU think is the information they want.
Mathew
PS. This means, use a spider.. or even better use google via a "site:..." search.
Google PageRank is very good at searching a broad sample of sites. It's not so good for individual sites.
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