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Yesterday I "spoke" about this problem in another website's forum

Hmmm... perhaps they saw my post and decided to start addressing the problem and my question?

Here is my post (from that other site):

http://tools.devshed.com/showblog/40106/Meta-Tags-Still-Useful/
"Static content vs. Dynamic content"


Web pages whose content is basically static might have good use for the tags, and search engines might have a much easier time in determining and presenting basic information after a scan and into a query.

However, in today's world where more and more content is dynamic within web pages, meta tags will probably not be of any use.

If the content of a web page at one time contains information regarding an event, and the next moment that same web page contains information about a person, and later on, that same page contains information about a product, then how is anybody going to make a determination about what the contents of the web page are about?

It gets even worse when that same page can contain information regarding many different people but at different times, and the same problem can arise with many different events at different times and many different products at different times.

If the data for the contents is held in a database, which database is potentially into the millions (and perhaps billions) of records, then no search engine in existence would be able to figure out what the the entire database contains, and hence, meta tags would be impossible to construct regarding the web site or the database.

As an example, if a database were to contain all articles written by all writers from all publishers, and the database were to be able to hold the articles for many months or many years, the number or articles would run into the many millions and the contents within each of the articles would be different from all of the others. At any one time, one of those articles could be presented on a web page. At that exact instance, the contents might be known, but since that is a very specific instance and not indicative of the contents of any of the other articles, then, in my view, meta tags are useless. Sure, for each article one could create meta tags for what is covered in the article and those meta tags can become part of the article's content within the database. But, to get the full flavor of the contents of the database, a search engine would have to be given access to the database and allowed the capability to search within the tags field of the articles. However, since the database would be very dynamic and changes would occur every second within the database, with additions and removal and changes to records, as soon as a scan was completed against the database, the results in the scan would be rendered outdated and not completely indicative of what's in the database.

Am I wrong? Or is there a solution of which I'm not aware of?

Posted by: adornoe@...   Posted on: 10/09/09  (Edited: 10/09/2009 @ 07:38) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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