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From: Charge D Wise
Date: Aug 7, 2007 10:00AM

Some search engines will still use the description text when your site is
returned in their results but keywords are pretty much dead. As for Dublin
Core I have used them a few times but not often or recently for that matter.
I no longer maintain that site and the person who took over after I fired
that client was so clueless the site wasn't usable for anyone for a long
time.

Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP FrontPage
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Collins


Thanks for your reply Jukka, that was very interesting to hear your
thoughts. So, would not even the Keywords and description metatags
have any use anymore?

The main reason I had got into this is the site I am on currently
needs to meet Priority 2 of WCAG 1; hence the guideline:

13.2 Provide metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites.