Meta Abstract Tag?

[jlara]

Is the meta abstact tag a valid and used tag by the search engines? This was recently presented to me and used by a Huge name in IT industry on all their web sites.

[caine]

<meta name="abstract" content="????"> is a summarization of the description meta, normally it is used in Academic papers. Yes it is valid, but has no effect with the big search engines, except wasting a line of code. It is read by very specialised SE's that are geared towards it.

Huge name's in the IT industry - very impressive - they may be using the tag to monitor pages for their search facilities - though their are potentially thousands of reasons.

[Brett_Tabke]

I've tried "abstract" in several different flavors. I can't tell that it makes any difference at all.

[digitalghost]

Seemed to help with NL, for their "collection."

Other than that, it's a meta tag...

DG

[bufferzone]

<Seemed to help with NL, for their "collection.">

Digitalghost. What do you meen by this. I have only been able to find something called "Special Collection" and that contains articles and not webpages

[digitalghost]

NL collected papers and they also grouped together web pages in sorted collections for surfers. You could search for say, "encryption algos" within the encryption category and the abstract tag helped pull those pages toward the top of the results. The author tag was also useful.

I did receive good traffic from NL for technical issues. NL seemed to be a favorite of reseachers and academia.

DG