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From: Eoin Campbell
Date: May 2, 2005 12:18PM

I believe that metatags can greatly improve accessibility and usability if
used properly to provide useful information to a locally configured
search engine such as SWISH-E.
As an example, try searching on www.entemp.ie, which uses Dublin Core
metadata tags to associate subject descriptors with individual pages
(DC.Subject), date modified (DC.Date.modified), etc.

Although search engines like Google don't make use of them, a well-configured
local search engine can use them to provide really good, accessible search
results.

At 19:00 02/05/2005, you wrote:


>>my firm is particularly concerned with meta tags like description, keywords and the like which help search engine positioning.
>>
>>Do these tags impact accessibility in any way ?
>>Thank you


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