[Zope] external search engines (altavista, etc.)

[Alexander Staubo]

Only in the sense that AltaVista and most other search engines uses the
text and embedded meta-information on your pages for indexing.

By meta-information I mean things like

  <meta name="keywords" content="sex drugs breast implants obscene
nudity">
  <meta name="description" content="This is my lovely home page">

and others.

I believe some engines -- perhaps Northern Light -- use link
relationships to attempt (and fail) at determining contextual relevance,
but beyond that, the state of the search engine world has arguably not
improved noticeably since a few years ago, bar small but welcome
babysteps of progress like Ask Jeeves and Google!, imho.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ctpate@mail1.mco.bellsouth.net
>[mailto:ctpate@mail1.mco.bellsouth.net]On Behalf Of Clarence T. Pate
>Sent: 16. juni 1999 01:31
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] external search engines (altavista, etc.)
>
>
>I have just joined the list, but I have been reading about Zope for a
>while now.  I think this package is cool!  I also like the
>neat packages
>that were announced today.
>
>Can search engines such as AltaVista mine the information out of a Zope
>website.  I have seen responses to other questions that there are ways
>to use a search engine to search a Zope website, but can the commercial
>laces search the website.  It would be nice for other places to know
>about things in your website, unless you want it to be private.
>
>Clarence T. Pate
>
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