Meta-tag: A means to control the process of Web indexing

Online Information Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 238-242

  Alimohammadi, Dariush ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Indexing; Information services; Internet; Search engines

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

META TAGS; MISINFORMATION; SEARCH ENGINE DESIGNERS; WEB INDEXING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 3242736484     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520310489023     Document Type: Article

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