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Early results from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project
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Early results from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project -
05-09-2004
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Some early results are in from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project. These results are from Google and Yahoo. MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb have yet to index the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project pages. To view the Search Engine Reverse Engineering pages yourself, visit http://www.internet-search-engines-f...ineering.shtml One test returned results so suprising that I would like to ask members of this newsgroup to review my methodology. This test appears to show that Yahoo does NOT index the keywords meta tag. Also of interest is the note that the Google and Yahoo results are exact duplicates of each other. Full test results are as follows: Do search engines index ALT tags on linked graphics? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes |
even with links. I just checked again and they do not. I tried several of my
images to have positive proof. But, Google definitely does.
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Do search engines index ALT tags on unlinked graphics? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index comments? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index the description meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index the keywords meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines treat dashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines treat forward slashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines treat underscores as spaces? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index the title tag? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines index title tags on links? Google: No Yahoo: No -- Will Webmaster: http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com |
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"Will Spencer" <will.spencer (AT) internet-search-engines-faq (DOT) com> wrote in message news  an.2004.05.10.02.35.54.684000 (AT) internet-search-engines-faq (DOT) com...Do search engines index the description meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No Yahoo seems to have my complete descriptions. |
is in the description...AFAIK neither includes it in the algorithm
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Some early results are in from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project. These results are from Google and Yahoo. MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb have yet to index the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project pages. To view the Search Engine Reverse Engineering pages yourself, visit http://www.internet-search-engines-f...ineering.shtml One test returned results so suprising that I would like to ask members of this newsgroup to review my methodology. This test appears to show that Yahoo does NOT index the keywords meta tag. Also of interest is the note that the Google and Yahoo results are exact duplicates of each other. |
I haven't had time to do much testing lately and the last things I did
check was only for Google. I think it's still too early to make any
long term algorithm statements about Yahoo since they will likely be
significantly tweaking their algo for sometime still.
What I say below is for google only.
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Full test results are as follows: Do search engines index ALT tags on linked graphics? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes |
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Do search engines index ALT tags on unlinked graphics? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index comments? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index the description meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index the keywords meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No Agreed. |
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Do search engines treat dashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes |
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Do search engines treat forward slashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes |
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Do search engines treat underscores as spaces? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index the title tag? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes |
wasn't indexed (doesn't count towards the SERPs).
If it is the above title and not the title in the head do you have an
example of a page which shows the contents of title="keywords" count
towards the SERPs?
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Do search engines index title tags on links? Google: No Yahoo: No |
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Do search engines index the title tag? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do you mean title="keywords"? If so last time I checked this the text wasn't indexed (doesn't count towards the SERPs). If it is the above title and not the title in the head do you have an example of a page which shows the contents of title="keywords" count towards the SERPs? |
http://www.internet-search-engines-f...itle-tag.shtml
By title tag, I mean:
<title>The title of the page.</title>
Hmm... should I not call this a "tag?"
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Some early results are in from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project. These results are from Google and Yahoo. MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb have yet to index the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project pages. To view the Search Engine Reverse Engineering pages yourself, visit http://www.internet-search-engines-f...ineering.shtml One test returned results so suprising that I would like to ask members of this newsgroup to review my methodology. This test appears to show that Yahoo does NOT index the keywords meta tag. |
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Some early results are in from the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project. These results are from Google and Yahoo. MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb have yet to index the Search Engine Reverse Engineering Project pages. To view the Search Engine Reverse Engineering pages yourself, visit http://www.internet-search-engines-f...ineering.shtml One test returned results so suprising that I would like to ask members of this newsgroup to review my methodology. This test appears to show that Yahoo does NOT index the keywords meta tag. Also of interest is the note that the Google and Yahoo results are exact duplicates of each other. Full test results are as follows: Do search engines index ALT tags on linked graphics? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines index ALT tags on unlinked graphics? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index comments? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index the description meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index the keywords meta tag? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines treat dashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines treat forward slashes as spaces? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines treat underscores as spaces? Google: No Yahoo: No Do search engines index the title tag? Google: Yes Yahoo: Yes Do search engines index title tags on links? Google: No Yahoo: No -- Will Webmaster: http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com |
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excellent resource, are you going to keep up adding new topics like use of Bold tags, use of boild tags around linking images with alt text hx tags, hx tags that are links, table subjects etc mark |
to add 'em as long as the ideas keep coming.
I can't figure out quite how to test <b> tags.
I am going to definitely add a test to <table title="KEYWORD">.
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One test returned results so suprising that I would like to ask members of this newsgroup to review my methodology. This test appears to show that Yahoo does NOT index the keywords meta tag. I'd suggest you test the test. BB |
That test is online at
http://www.internet-search-engines-f...keywords.shtml
Unfortunately, I am *now* hitting a different Yahoo data center than I was
last night. The result being that the Yahoo data center I am now hitting
is showing me old results, with almost none of the test pages being
indexed.
So, I have to wait. I know the Google data centers by IP, but not the
Yahoo data centers.
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I can't figure out quite how to test <b> tags. |
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I am going to definitely add a test to <table title="KEYWORD">. |
You'll find the same with most hidden comment type things (everyone
I've tested is ignored).
David
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