[WEB4LIB] AOL browser

[Thomas Dowling]

This looks suspicious:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="Historical material provided by
the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff (Ohio) Historical Society,old
houses,founding fathers;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Without know what error message is taken to mean "doesn't seem to like",
it's almost impossible to say what might be going on.  However, AOL
maintains a large cache of documents retrieved by their users, and it's
just possible that the cache is seeing--and getting confused by--a meta
tag that tries to set a MIME content type that's scrambled (and it's
almost guaranteed that search engines aren't indexing these terms).

I suggest replacing this tag with:

<meta name="description" content="Historical material provided by
  the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff (Ohio) Historical Society">
<meta name="keywords" content="old houses, founding fathers">


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu



----- Original Message -----
From: Don Yarman <yarmando at ghpl.lib.oh.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:15 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] AOL browser


> Web4Librains--
>
> Our Library hosts the site for our local historical
> society.  Their webmaster reports:
>
> > sometimes (not always) AOL's browser rejects the URL
> > http://www.ghpl.lib.oh.us/ghmchistorical/main.html
> >
> > It doesn't seem to like the "main.html" file name.
>
> Does anyone have a clue why this might be?
>
>      Your most humble and obedient servant,
>
>                          Don Yarman
>                          Grandview Hts Public Library
>                          yarmando at clc.lib.oh.us
>