RE: Infocenter searches (Not!)

Most searches donot find items in PDF files, right? Also, dynamic content
cannot be searched for. So a lot of stuff will not appear in ANY search
attempt.

I think <g>

At 06:11 PM 3/20/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Buck:
>
>On Wed, 20 March 2002, Buck Calabro wrote:
>
> > They sure are.  I guess I wasn't smart enough to conceive of the notion
> that
> > a machine search could impute meaning to the search arguments I type in.
> > I'll have to re-think that notion now that I see what you mean.
>
>The search engines can be helped by site designers who make use of various
>techniques such as <meta content="xxx yyy zzz"> tags in HTML. Searches can
>be created or tuned or configured to index purely over text or purely over
>meta-data or who knows how many variations. Decent configurations help the
>intended audience to locate info with minimal waste.
>
>HTML, SGML, etc., all of these have indexing support. An issue with
>Infocenter seems to be that indexing simply was never thought about.
>
>Tom Liotta
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