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· Naughties
· · 2003
· · · July
· · · · 29 (1 entry)

On Search: Metadata · In the Web’s early years, the overwhelming favorite among search engines was Yahoo. Today it’s Google. Neither has actually had better text search technology than the competition. They won because they used metadata effectively to make their services more useful. In this ninth On Search episode, a survey of what metadata is, where it comes from, and how to use it ...
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