Re: search engine refinement

Each Search engine has its own way of working, and the designers of these 
engines take ill any attempts to impress or trick them.
Many good engines ignore your meta tags in favor of examining your text. 
Many of those that do this will also blackball you for attempting to use 
hidden text (ie. in the same color as the background).

IMO those as do search the text are the better engines. They will index 
more things than you could ever put in a meta-tag. You need not try for 
good position with engines such as these. For example, goto 
http://www.alltheweb.com and enter my name (Elias Thienpont), and do a 
search on the exact phrase... and you will come up with 10 documents with 
my name on them. I can assure you that my name is not in the meta tags of 
any of them, and since my name is uncommon enough, all of the pages you 
find will be relevant. (Sorry Bill Smith, you are out of luck on this one.)

At 03:40 PM 9/18/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm wondering if there is a way to get a search engine to just concentrate 
>on the meta tag keywords? The one I'm using is picking up every word on 
>every page.
>
>My web host provides the following search engine cgi:
>
>#                       SEARCH_ENGINE.CGI
>#
># This script was written by Gunther Birznieks
># Date Created: 4-18-96
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lori

Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
http://www.assumptionabbey.com

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