question for web gurus

jp may (jpm@TWEB.COM)
Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:22:24 -0700

>Also sprach 'Evan M. Kirchhoff' :
>
>>What the heck is on that page? I was reading suck via lynx, and all I
>>got, after a very long time, was:
>>
>>[IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] ...
>>[IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] ...
>
>Ahhh, thank you sir. Forgot to add the alt tag.

Does anyone know ...

some search engines, notably 'web crawler' work by actually visiting the
url you give them, and then, indexing the words they find in the actual, on
the actual web page. {Rather than say you giving them some keywords when
you give them the url}

Nowadays many websites (witness the above) actually dont HAVE any words to
identofy vaguely what they are for -- does webcrawler (or the other
examples) clever enough to look at "alt=" arguments and use those for the
index material ??

thnkx

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