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From: <CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: How to reach more classic computer users?
> Here's where I'm sure someone can help me. If anyone could look at,
> for example, my DECUS freeware index at
>
>
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/decus/
>
> and particularly suggest which META tags I might have to add again to
> make this page (and the pages that it refers to) show up in search
> engines, I'd greatly appreciate it! Back when these pages were
> indexed by search engines, they'd get hundreds of search hits a day.
> But now they never ever turn up, and I don't know why. I mean, the
> pages still have the same information they always did, and it's not
> like anyone else has a similar index on the web that replaces this
> one.
Probably, you have to change some of the content of the HTML files, or just
change the creation/update attributes ?
Or put some keywords like "VERY VERY NEW OLD STUFF" ;-)
> Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but it seemed to me that a couple of
> years ago the search engines did a very good job of finding a page
> based on content. For example, if I knew a key phrase that occured
> somewhere on a page, I could do an Altavista search for that phrase
> (in quotes) and get a hit every single time. This doesn't seem to
> work the same way anymore. Is it because search engines no longer
> index based on content? If they aren't based on content, then what
> the heck are they based on?
I noticed that too. I tried the same with known pages :-(
Cheers,
emanuel
Received on Sat Oct 16 1999 - 16:30:51 BST