On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 at 23:46:11, jms1 wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>>From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<snip> <robots ignoring meta>
>Somewwhere I read that these programs check to see whether the web page
>contains the meta tags and if not ignores them. I could be years out of date
That sentence sounds worng. If they ignore the meta, then why bother to
check at all?
I understand that the major robots simply ignore -any- text that is not
shown in the main display area to the user.
ie ignores <meta and even <title>. This is -exactly- what google do.
I can see the advantage. Designers can do ridiculous things with hidden
data (and they -do-) but have to be circumspect with visible text.
When trawling for news articles for worldnews, I very very rarely can
use the <meta tags as the data there is usually useless.
Tony
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