- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:45:58 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi, a few days ago, I came across a discussion about meta/@name=description and how it's used by search engines to provide a summary (<http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090817#l-607>). Contrary to what some people said, using it doesn't seem to be a waste of time, as it *is* being used to generate a summary in the search results. And, at least with the documents I am producing, it fails to generate a good one automatically. A drawback is that it uses hidden metadata, and, even worse, is likely to duplicate information from the page. It seems what's needed is to markup the page so that a consumer can actually locate the description inside the page. One way to do that would be a link relation, for instance: <link rel="description" href="#desc"/> ... <div id="desc"> <h2>Abstract</h2> <p> ...description text... </p> </div> Feedback appreciated, Julian
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