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Re: [ECS] Web page feedback Scott Reston Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:07:09 -0500

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do you mean when a user puts quotes around their search string, or when a the quoted
text is in your page?

generally, the way that search engines work is by just creating a really huge index.
different search engines are going to handle things differently when a user 
wants to specify that they're searching for a phrase...

the fact that each engine works differently is really frustrating. the best way to handle
things is to cover all of your bets: use keyword tags, put important words 
in your <title></title> tags, don't repeat a word too often (engines have gotten hip
to that) and do a custom submit to the important search engines (like yahoo, 
webcrawler, altavista, hotbot... etc) rather than a submit-it.



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:19:05 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:

>Do you happen to know how search engines search
>for quoted strings (e.g. "the cow jumped over") ?
>I'm just curious. Seems like they would have to
>manually search thru every page on the web.
>Later...

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