Variations in use of meta tag descriptions by Web pages in different languages

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 479-493

  Craven, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character sets; Foreign languages; HTML; Metadata; Summarization

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CHARACTER SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

FOREIGN LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINE DESIGNERS; SUMMARIZATION;

HTML;

EID: 1842832752     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(02)00121-8     Document Type: Article

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