- From: Silas S. Brown <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:51:39 +0000
- To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jonathan@signbrowser.free-online.co.uk>, jay@peepo.com
- CC: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
> img src ="http://www.... I've heard some sites say don't do it (it's not linking, but inlining). Others are only too keen. Best thing is to write to them or see if they have a policy on their web page I suppose. NB copyright is a tricky thing on the Internet because it's international. For example, there are differences between Britain and America. > 3 word counts in meta tags. Do you mean word counts in links? If you've got the page (and you need the page to have the meta tags), you can run a wordcount anyway. I can also just imagine that these things will suffer from "bit rot" - people might put the word counts in but fail to keep them up-to-date. > my vb spider had to stop counting somewhere You wrote your own web crawler in VB to find text-free sites? I'm not surprised it went wrong - the web is *very* big and it's not within the resources of most of us to run a crawler. InfoSeek, AltaVista and Lycos tell you the document size (without images) with the search results; this isn't a good indicator but it might help (eg. a page that's 100k long will probably contain too much text). You could write to AltaVista [1] and ask if they could add a feature that tells you the word count of fetched documents (or indeed search for documents with less than a certain word count [2]) - they seem pretty keen to implement all kinds of things (CJK, translation etc). [1] Do it as an organisation not an individual. Large companies often pay attention to organisations with important-looking acronyms, but don't pay attention to individuals. Writing on paper will probably help too. [2] but you'll probably have problems with frames - you might get quite a few hits to frames that just say "Back to home page".... Regards -- Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK http://epona.ucam.org/~ssb22/ "Anyone inexperienced puts faith in every word, but the shrewd one considers his steps" - Proverbs 13:16
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