Saturday, January 25, 2003

How spam doesn't work

SMBmeta is different than the old Keywords meta tags "Some of the things we learn from the Keywords meta tag experience are the following:

* Showing the searcher data used in doing the search can help the searcher determine if a result is relevant and ignore inappropriate ones
* Find ways to have third party validation
* Make it easy to flag abusers
* Do not be biased by simple repetition
* Some detailed queries can only be answered using data provided by the web site author
* Authors will go to the trouble of providing meta data if they think it will help searchers
* If it's easy to be abused, it will"

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