Re: question for web gurus

Taylor (taylor@KID-LINEAR.TAYLOR.ORG)
Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:14:07 -0800

Also sprach 'jp may' :

>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 ??

To date Anna (my girlfriend) has gotten 5416 hits to her cookie page (a
page about a burlap cookie she found on Haight st.) because of the alt tag

"FUCK!, SUCK! DICK!, CUNT! COCK!
---these words were INSERTED to increase my hit count"

And boy did they ever. Big brother (altavista) archived her about a month
later and we started to recieve hits with referer strings like

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=fuck+suck+teen+
cunt -> /~anna/cookie2.html

Though She's regretted doing it. I think she got annoyed with the amount
of people looking at her page with intent of jacking off, rather then for
looking for art. Though we get a few with strings like artichoke going to
her vegitable of the month.

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