On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 at 22:56:12, jms1 wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [ql-users] Jan Jones Book
>
>
>> 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?
>>
>Thanks Tony it was very badly worded.
>
>What I meant to say is that crawler checks to see if the contents of the
>meta tags are in the body of the text. If it is not it ignores that meta tag
>and does not add it to the list.
Not as I understand it, and -certainly- not what Google do (see my
example in previous email).
Tony
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