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SE's indexing from Yahoo

Which title or description would they use

         

stuart

7:58 pm on Jun 28, 2001 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



If an SE found and listed a site from Yahoo, would that SE use the title/description from the Yahoo (filled out) listing or from my actual page/meta content?

2_much

10:18 pm on Jun 28, 2001 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hi Stuart,

Most engines will use the information on the HTML code of the site itself, not Yahoo.

I have never seen an engine display the title and description given by Yahoo.

I believe they spider Yahoo to get quality websites, and then rank them according to their own algos, and give them a title and description from the HTML code and according to their established methods of displaying listings.

stuart

10:21 am on Jun 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks 2_much.