Re: [htmltmpl] RFC: Template Tag Attributes

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

Timm Murray wrote:
> At 09:38 AM 6/3/04 +1000, Mathew Robertson wrote:

>> This is a common mistake that information creators think 'is a good 
>> thing'...  The web got popular for a number of reasons - one of them 
>> being "full text indexing of all content" (including 
>> headers/footers/etc).
> 
> 
> Why?  There is no useful information in headers/footers.  By nature of 
> using a templating system, they are the same on every page in a given 
> section.  Including them in search results only increases the noise and 
> the amount of information that needs to be indexed.

I've seen sites where I could read a word on a page, input it into the 
'site search' box, and get no results. This tells me that the word does 
not exist on the site (even though I can see it) or more likely that 
this is not really a 'site search' but perhaps a 'content search' or 
'article search' or whatever...

I think people are used to using Google, Yahoo, etc. and getting results 
that come from *every* piece of text on the page, whether that is a good 
thing or bad thing can depend... it can depend on user expectations, and 
other things.

While you say that there is no useful information in headers/footers, 
that may be by your definition and decision of what goes in a header and 
footer. This can vary from person to person.

Pete