clarification re: loaded searches
Gretchen McCord Hoffmann
GMHoffmann at UH.EDU
Fri May 23 12:21:30 EDT 1997
Let me clarify my message from yesterday--what I'm looking for is examples
of sites that "load" their pages with irrelevant terms to make it more
likely to be retrieved in a search. The example I was talking about was a
page of naked women titled "Sex in the Internal Revenue Service" or some
such, and with the term "IRS" appearing all over the place. So far as I
could decipher, the IRS wasn't even a theme. So I'm looking for similar
examples without naked bodies, as opposed to more traditional searches
that retrieve irrelevant sites, like searching for "grant" as in funding and
retrieving "amy grant."
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Gretchen McCord Hoffmann I want to be thoroughly used up
Coordinator of Library Instruction when I die...Life is no "brief
University of Houston Libraries candle" to me. It is a sort of
gmhoffmann at uh.edu splendid torch which I have got
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% hold of for the moment, and I want
All opinions and ideas expressed to make it burn as brightly as
above are products of my own possible before handing it on to
bizarre thought processes. future generations.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% --George Bernard Shaw
More information about the Web4lib
mailing list