RE: Search engine and alt text: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft

> Question:  Do search engines really  scan alt text given for images  ?

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> one of my co-workers was architect at alta-vista so I asked him; seems
> that 'most' search engines should be expected to parse text that is in
> elements and can be expected to parse certain attribute values, like
> alt, as well.

I also remember cases (when searching via Google) where 'alt' attribute
values were shown, but unfortunately I was neither able to reproduce this nor
have I found documentation about this right now.


Best regards,
 Jens.


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Jens Meiert
Interface Architect

http://meiert.com/

Received on Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:24:31 UTC