Re: Meta use in search engine from Andrew Daviel on 1997-09-23 (www-html@w3.org from September 1997)

From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: Pascal Urbain <PUrbain@europarl.eu.int>
cc: Internet robots discussion <robots@MCCMEDIA.COM>, WWW-HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970923120511.29120B-100000@andrew.triumf.ca>

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Pascal Urbain wrote:

> I have a little question about the use of case in meta.
> 
> Are the name of meta case sensitive? In other words. Is it possible to
> use the meta "DESCRIPTION" instead of "description" and "KEYWORDS"
> instead of "keywords"? 

To my knowledge, NAME is case insensitive, but CONTENT is not (although
most search engines would key off either case).

Anyone else care to comment or correct me ?

Andrew Daviel
TRIUMF & Vancouver Webpages

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