On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Sam Saunders wrote:
> No indeed. My thought was not really between Dublin Core and
> AltaVista, it was really a matter of (given the
> "not-quite-yet-adopted" status of Dublin Core) whether AltaVista was
> better than nothing.
The advantage of of Dublin Core is that it is the nearest we have to an
internationally recognised standard for a simple metadata format.
If you also want to create metadata under 'proprietary' schemes which will
suit particular search engine's robots well fine, but each of the big
search engines have their own quirks when it comes to how they index web
pages. Web site managers could waste a lot of time trying to achieve
sensible indexing of their web pages if they tried to fit in with the
diverse requirements of all the 'big' search engines.... AltaVista do seem
to have succeeded in widely publicising their requirements regarding the
META tags, so for that reason I think a lot of people are beginning to
include those tags in their documents.
Rachel
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