Variations in use of meta tag keywords by web pages in different languages

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 268-279

  Craven, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASCII extensions; Character coding; Character sets; HTML character entity references; Indexing; Keywords; Language variations; Meta tags; Metadata; Titles; Web pages; World wide web

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HTML; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES;

ACSII EXTENSIONS; CHARACTER CODING; HTML CHARACTER ENTITY REFERENCES; KEYWORDS; LANGUAGE VARIATIONS; META TAGS; TITLES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 3142574993     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551504042805     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. T.C. Craven, Variations in use of meta tag descriptions by Web pages in different languages, Information Processing and Management [in press].
2. T.C. Craven, Features of DESCRIPTION Meta tags in public home pages, Journal of Information Science 26(5) (2000) 303-310.
3. T.C. Craven, 'DESCRIPTION' Meta tags in locally linked Web pages, Aslib Proceedings 53(6) (2001) 203-216.
4. T.C. Craven, DESCRIPTION meta tags in public home and linked pages, LIBRES, 11(2) (2001). Available at: http://libres.curtin.edu.au/LIBRE11N2/index. htm (accessed 4 January 2004).
5. T.C. Craven, Changes in metatag descriptions over time, First Monday 6(10) (2001). Available at: http://first-monday.org/issues/issue6_10/craven/ index.html. (accessed 4 January 2004).
6. T.C. Craven, DESCRIPTION Meta tags in pages returned on different search engines, Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 26(1) (2001) 1-17.
7. T.C. Craven, External descriptions of Web pages: their features and their relationships to Web page elements, Libri 52(1) (2002) 36-47.
8. T.C. Craven, Human creation of abstracts with selected computer assistance tools, Information Research 3(4) (1998): paper 47, Available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/3-4/paper47.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
9. T.C. Craven, Abstracts produced using computer assistance, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(8) (2000) 745-756.
10. D.L. King, Library home page design: a comparison of page layout for front-ends to ARL library Web sites, College and Research Libraries 59(5) (1998) 458-465.
11. S.W. Haas and E.S. Grams, Readers, authors, and page structure: a discussion of four questions arising from a content analysis of Web pages, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(2) (2000) 181-192.
12. T.C. Almind and P. Ingwersen, Informetric analyses on the World Wide Web: methodological approaches to 'Webmetrics', Journal of Documentation 53(4) (1997) 404-426.
13. S.P. Harter and C.E. Ford, Web-based analyses of e-journal impact: approaches, problems, and issues, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(13) (2000) 1159-1176.
14. B. Rahardjo and R.H.C. Yap, Automatic information extraction from Web pages. In: W.B. Croft (ed.), SIGIR'01, September 9-12, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA ACM, New York, 2001) 430-431.
15. W. Koehler, Web page change and persistence - a four-year longitudinal study, Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 53(2) (2002) 162-171.
16. T.P. Turner and L. Brackbill, Rising to the top: evaluating the use of the HTML meta tag to improve retrieval of World Wide Web documents through Internet search engines, Library Resources and Technical Services 42(4) (1998) 258-271.
17. R. Henshaw and E.J. Valauskas, Metadata as a catalyst: experiments with metadata and search engines in the Internet journal, First Monday, Libri 51(2) (2001) 86-101.
18. M.C. Drott, Indexing aids at corporate websites: the use of robots.txt and META tags, Information Processing and Management 38(2) (2002) 209-219.
19. A. Wheatley and C.J. Armstrong, Metadata, recall, and abstracts: can abstracts ever be reliable indicators of document value? Aslib Proceedings, 49(8) (1997) 206-21.
20. E. Amitay. What Lays in the Layout (2001). Available at: www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/thesis/ (accessed 4 January 2004).
21. J. de Kloet, Digitisation and its Asian discontents: the Internet, politics and hacking in China and Indonesia, First Monday 7(9) (2002). Available at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_9/kloet/index.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
22. Global Reach, Global Internet Statistics (by Language) (2002). Available at: http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3 (accessed 4 January 2004).
23. Nua, US Hispanics prefer English language websites, Nua Internet Surveys (2002). Available at: www.nua.-com/surveys/?f = VS&art_id = 905358183&rel = true (accessed 4 January 2004).
24. st National Online Meeting: Proceedings-2000 (Information Today, New York, 2000) 145-153.
25. National Information Standards Organisation, Guidelines for Abstracts (NISO Press, Bethesda, MD, 1997).
26. Submit Corner, Submit Corner-Guides-META Tag Guide-Keywords Tag (2000). Available at: www.submit-corner.com/Guide/Meta/keywords.shtml (accessed 4 January 2004).
27. B. Dunlap, Optimizing for Search Engines in Other Languages (1999). Available at: www.glreach.com/eng/ed/art/rep-eur15.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
28. bigmouthmedia, Multilingual Search Engine Optimisation (2003). Available at: www.bigmouthmedia.com/products_services/ multilingual_search_engine_optimisation/ (accessed 4 January 2004).
29. J. Whalen, Meta Tags Search Engine Optimization Meta Keyword Tag - HighRankings.com (2001). Available at: www.highrankings.com/metakeyword.htm (accessed 4 January 2004).
30. Pandecta Magazine, Meta Tags: Common Mistakes In Meta Tags (2003). Available at: http://pandecta.com/search_engines/meta_tags_mistakes.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
31. J. Birch, Meta Tags and the Search Engines (Association of Internet Marketing Professionals, 2001). Available at: www.aim-pro.com/helpfiles/dynamic- frame.html?metatags.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
32. A-1 HTML, Meta Tag Information (2003). Available at: http://home.san.rr. com/a1html/metatags.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
33. D. Cunliffe, H. Jones, M. Jarvis, K. Egan, R. Huws, and S. Munro, Information architecture for bilingual Web sites, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53(10) (2002) 866-873.
34. D. Brandt, PageRank: Google's Original Sin (2002). Available at: www.google-watch.org/pagerank.html (accessed 4 January 2004).
35. F. Manjoo, Meet Mr. Anti-Google, Salon.com. Technology (2002). Available at: www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/index.html (accessed 30 January 2004).
36. M. Sroka, Web search engines for Polish information retrieval: questions of search capabilities and retrieval performance, International Information and Library Review 32 (2000) 87-98.