[Sigia-l] Terms & the rest of us: Findability (was: Vive laFrance! Vive Napoleon!!)

[Eric Scheid]

On 20/7/03 6:26 AM, "Derek R" <derekr at derekrogerson.com> wrote:

> The magic of http://google.com/ is in their search algorithms -- not in
> the useless additions of meta-tags (i.e. spam) which http://google.com/
> doesn't even pay any attention to (for obvious reasons).

They may ignore externally applied meta-tags, but they add their own
meta-data, and rely on it extensively. Maybe you've heard of it, they call
it "page rank".

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