At 09:38 AM 6/3/04 +1000, Mathew Robertson wrote:
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.
I've seen sites where I could read a word on a page, input it into the 'site search' box, and get no results. This tells me that the word does not exist on the site (even though I can see it) or more likely that this is not really a 'site search' but perhaps a 'content search' or 'article search' or whatever...
I think people are used to using Google, Yahoo, etc. and getting results that come from *every* piece of text on the page, whether that is a good thing or bad thing can depend... it can depend on user expectations, and other things.
While you say that there is no useful information in headers/footers, that may be by your definition and decision of what goes in a header and footer. This can vary from person to person.
Pete
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