What search-engines support the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set?
Several commercial and non-commercial search engines will index META elements with just a little configuration. A recent inquiry on the dc-general mailing list produced this list: • Ultraseek • Swish-E • Microsoft’s Index Server • Blue Angel Technologies MetaStar • Verity Search 97 Information Server To get a good overview of what software is out there see Search Tools and Search Engine Watch. The well-known “all the Web” search engines including AltaVista, Yahoo, HotBot, etc. tend to avoid using the information found in meta elements in their indexing. This is because, unless the pages are from guaranteed “trusted” servers, the meta information is commonly used by unscrupulous content-providers for spamming, to mislead the indexes into givingWeb-pages a misleading rating.
Several commercial and non-commercial search engines will index META elements with just a little configuration. A recent inquiry on the dc-general mailing list produced this list: • Ultraseek • Swish-E • Microsoft’s Index Server • Blue Angel Technologies MetaStar • Verity Search 97 Information Server To get a good overview of what software is out there see Search Tools and Search Engine Watch. The well-known “all the Web” search engines including AltaVista, Yahoo, HotBot, etc. tend to avoid using the information found in meta elements in their indexing. This is because, unless the pages are from guaranteed “trusted” servers, the meta information is commonly used by unscrupulous content-providers for spamming, to mislead the indexes into givingWeb-pages a misleading rating.
