Not strictly DC, but along a similar vein... don't suppose anyone knows if any/many search engines take ICBM meta data or geo.position meta data into account when determining local content?
I ask because, whilst Google is generally pretty good with localised versions (my personal site[1] is a .com but it shows up in Australian content listings because it's hosted on a computer here), it'd be nice not to have to host in Australia or have a .something.au address to show up in Australian listings (yeah, I know, abuse of domain name system... someone shoot me.) More on topic, is this meta data actually valuable? I've got it on my blog, just for kicks and because it's useful for GeoURL[2] if nothing else. If this meta data is more broadly utilised then perhaps it's worth considering using on more sites. Any ideas? Josh 1. http://www.joahua.com/blog/ 2. http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://www.joahua.com/blog/ On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:15 +0100, Paul Collins wrote: > I have recently been reading about Dublin Core meta data. I would like > to know what the main advantages are of using it and how widely it is > interpreted by search engines. I am having a hard time finding out the > right information, could anyone point me in the correct direction or > maybe give some knowledge? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
