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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 ...
By
Tim Bray.
I work for Google, but the
opinions expressed here are
my own, and no other party
necessarily agrees with them.
A full disclosure of my
professional interests is
on the
author page.