#14 General content lacking - search term appeared in ALT tag?

[Bill Thies]

Opened by thies@mit.edu on 2002-03-06

This gets returned in searching for "congelador":

http://www1.las.es/~jose/angel/DERECHA.htm

The only occurence of the keyword is in the ALT tag of
an image. Altavista ranks this page 10th, but google
does not have it in the top 30. I still believe that we
should stop using Altavista, since I've never
seen an example where it improves the results. Have
other people had a different experience in this regard?

Eventually, I suppose we might not want to give
weighting to ALT tags, since they're not describing much
content when their picture isn't included in the download.