Meta-tags: Still a matter of opinion

The Electronic Library

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 625-631

  Alimohammadi, Dariush ^a  

^a Museum and Documentation Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

HTML; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HTML META-TAGS; WEB INDEXING;

METADATA;

EID: 28844431996     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470510635700     Document Type: Review

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