Tim Bunce writes: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: > > > Does META.yaml have a place for keyowrds? It would be nice if it did > > ... > > That's what the Description field is for.
A potential problem with people keyword-stuffing the description is that for topics with a few synonyms fitting them all in makes the description very stilted, lessening its worth as an explanation to a human reading the description as a whole to work out what the module is for. (See the page titles on many commercial websites in crowded markets, such as hotels.) However, I still agree with you: humans in general are incredibly bad at picking relevant keywords -- look how much better web search engines got when they started ignoring the keywords and using other algorithms based on picking the relevant bits out of the full text of pages themselves -- and having keywords being set independently by so many different people does not sound like something with a high chance of yielding useful results. An appropriate multi-part module name plus a description field together give a good opportunity for fitting in a reasonable number of keywords. Smylers
