Flawed AltaVista Internet Search Engine

[Tony Barry]

At 9:26 AM 28/3/97, Tom Worthington wrote:
>The meta-data work hosted by the National Library of Australia has seen a
>good coming together of "information professions" and should go some way of
>addressing the problems with web crawlers:
>http://www.acs.org.au/president/1996/epubs/metadata.htm

The report on the meta data workshop which I attended is still not out and
although there were positive features they have -

* still not fixed on a final syntax
* Where is a free for all in the subelements
* W3C is introducting some new wrinkles on HTML later in the year which
will change this.
* NO major search engines are using it yet.

While the library community has a significant presence in this effort a
great deal of input comes from elsewhere.  This was the 4th conference in
an international series and it is good to see  australia is making input.

Tont

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