- Foreign language keywords
- Posted by Redcat on August 4th, 2003
I'm just doing a site in multiple languages and they want keywords added in
the language that each page is in. I've just started going through this and
when they gave me the content it came as Word docs so that I could just copy
and paste it.
Now, when I'm adding keywords I get things like persönlichen come up
Now, if someone in Germany does a search then they will not type this in.
How will this be treated?
Cheers
Andy
- Posted by Alan J. Flavell on August 4th, 2003
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Redcat wrote:
Why? See my remarks at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/....html#Note8BIT
Oh, I think you can rely on search engines understanding HTML to at
least _this_ level. Read some of the usenet postings by Andreas
Prilop to understand the kind if things that search engines still tend
to get wrong, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.
Now if you were searching for Hebrew, you _might_ need to type it in
back-to-front...
- Posted by Redcat on August 4th, 2003
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.53.0308041304330.29863@ppepc56.ph. gla.ac.uk...
Cheers Alan. I've got Chinese and Japanese to contend with which could be
fun! Turkish and Russian will be bad enough but at least they rely on a
"spelling" alphabet.
- Posted by Andreas Prilop on August 4th, 2003
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Redcat wrote:
Speaking about special, non-ASCII characters, you should set up your <ahem>
nesreader correctly:
Tools > Options > Send
Mail Sending Format > Plain Text Settings > Message format MIME
News Sending Format > Plain Text Settings > Message format MIME
Encode text using: None
<meta name="keywords"> is ignored by any search engine - so there's no need
to bother at all.
--
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/plonk.txt
- Posted by Alan J. Flavell on August 4th, 2003
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Andreas Prilop wrote:
Urgh, so it seems I answered the wrong part of the question. :-(
Still, the encoding question is still relevant to the parts of the
document that the search engines _do_ index, so I hope that part of
my answer was right, hmmm?
- Posted by Andreas Prilop on August 5th, 2003
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Redcat wrote:
http://google.com/search?q=%22russis...ni-hannover.de
does not find
http://google.com/search?q=cache:www...itelseite.html
Same result for AllTheWeb and AltaVista. Try this with any other search engine;
if you find a search engine that indexes <meta name="keywords"> then please
tell us. :-)
- Posted by Eric Jarvis on August 5th, 2003
Redcat wrote:
make sure that the original Word document is in a Unicode
font and it will generally cut and paste fine into most
text/html editors in my experience...Russian you may have
problems since IME some translators use an odd
encoding...fortunately I speak and read Russian well
enough to cope
the real problems come when you try to tackle the Indian
languages
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"Hey Lord don't ask me questions
There ain't no answer in me"
- Posted by Redcat on August 6th, 2003
"Andreas Prilop" <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0308051313370.1144-100000@s5b004...
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OK, I've just been to see the customer and explained that search engines
don't index <meta name="keywords">. I think he believes me! It's a big
culture shock for him as he has been indoctrinated (as we all have) that
keywords are the way to go.
I've shown him the example above but was wondering if there is anywhere that
documents this. I've had a look through the Google site but I can't find
anything on there that says this. Does anyone know where the info might be
found? Search Engine Watch only seems to contain older articles and I think
this is a more recent departure from what we all expect.
Andy
- Posted by Andreas Prilop on August 6th, 2003
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
The vast majority (strange as it may seem) write invalid tag soup.
[ Is this some kind of argument? :-) ]
--
Meanwhile at the Google Ranch ...
"I can't read this bloody site; it's all Falsh and JavaScrap."
"Forget it and move on! Still 2*718*281*828 pages to crawl."
- Posted by Andreas Prilop on August 6th, 2003
"Redcat" <nospam@redcatmedia.co.uk> wrote:
I cannot point you to an article right now - because I believe only what
I tested myself, not what I read from other people. :-)
You might want to ask in <news:alt.internet.search-engines> and
<news:de.comm.infosystems.suchmaschinen> (perhaps also in English)
if you want to hear other opinions.
--
Meanwhile at the Google Ranch ...
"I can't read this bloody site; it's all Falsh and JavaScrap."
"Forget it and move on! Still 2*718*281*828 pages to crawl."
