- From: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:41:28 +0100
Am 31.12.2010 17:30 schrieb Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Martin Janecke<whatwg.org at kaor.in> wrote: [snip] >> Apart from informing human readers about the correct reproduction of a >> misspelled word, a HTML<sic> would indicate the same to web applications. >> Think of a search engine, which, as one factor of their ranking algorithm, >> considers orthography and grammar in a page as quality factor. The search >> engine could be made to ignore (reasonably few)<sic>-marked errors in such >> an algorithm; i.e. not let<sic>-marked errors rank the page lower. > > Would search engines benefit from markup for this? They could actually benefit, if the correct spelling would be added in an attribute, so they could match the misspelled word with a correctly spelled search term; somehow like: <sic correct="choose">chuse</sic> This would probably lead to abuse by seo trickers: <sic correct="porn">buy</sic> <sic correct="sex">my product!</sic> Also, I assume that this search engine benefit can already be achieved with existing markup: <span title="choose">chuse</span>
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