Talk:Meta element

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How are meta tags distinct from metadata? Anyone think this page should be incorporated into the article on metadata? Or perhaps the link should be made more explicit? NickW 14:56, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Oppose Meta tag has enough information to be its own article. Furthermore, meta tags and metadata are not exactly the same thing... --Alvinrune]] 17:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Oppose The meta element is fairly important, and other HTML elements have their own pages. --holizz 19:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Oppose Meta tags as a phrase often used to refer to search engine implications of meta tags, in common vernacular. Meta refresh should, of course, be referenced on that article, but is special and different enough to warrant it's own page. Furthermore, I've generally referenced this very article as a quick reference (as it's not a piece of markup I use often) and would not want to crawl through a much larger article on 'meta tags in general' in order to copy/paste a quick snippet of code. --Unnamed person November 2006

[edit] search engines

According to this article, engines have been "veering away" from using META tags for indexing since "the early 2000s", so... 3-6 years? I would figure that they're either done veering or have at least veered quite a bit by now so that imo we should probably verify to what extent they are still used (if at all.) --Anaraug 22:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Long time computer guy but relatively new to the detailed nature of website structure as it relates to marketing and $$ generation. However, I've changed my homepage away from google and other sites that meta-refresh simply because I think ANYTHING done to a person's system without their EXPLICIT knowledge and permission is really an invasion of privacy at minumum and if pushed to certain levels, criminal. I'm not sure at this point how Meta tags and meta refresh are similar in nature but if so then sure, put it in to the meta data article. I think meta refresh is a bit more devious because now the site is actually enabling the browser into action without the user's knowledge or consent.

Meta Refresh Tags should have a separate page from Meta Tags. It would be easier for people to find information about Meta Refresh if it is in a separate page from Meta Tags as it was for me when searching on Google.

I agree generally with the above poster on meta-refresh, in particular that having its own article is valuable for access through Google.

Interested in this sentance: "An alternative to META elements for enhanced subject access within a web site is the use of a back-of-book-style index for the web site." - its not easy to use the citations provided to locate an example of this technique in use on the web. It is an interesting concept but unless good examples can be provided then it should be marked as a possible/suggested alternative.

"Newer search engines like Google and FAST have never had any support for the META keywords tag." Is there a citation that would back this up? I thought Google gave the META keywords tag a small weighting. ChopMonkey 16:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)