| Jukka K. Korpela 2004-02-29, 1:29 pm |
| Under Subject: Re: CSS property for printing alternative text?
Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Then all search engines are very badly written. But I don't agree.
> ALT texts would then be misused for search engine spamming.
They could be misused, but I don't think it would be wrong to treat
<h1><img ... alt="foo"></h1> as equivalent to <h1>foo</h1> for the
purposes of indexing. That would very much correspond to the defined
meaning of the alt attribute. Abuse should be treated at a different
level.
>
> No. More exactly:
> www.google.com indexes ALT text only inside <A HREF>.
> images.google.com indexes ALT text always.
Sounds interesting - and relatively natural. Is there any statement
from Google itself, or a report of an experimental study, that would
confirm this?
(Moving to c.i.w.a.misc suggested in message headers.)
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