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James Cummings wrote:
- By far the easiest is to make your HTML attractive to a third-party
search engine, and allow google to search and index it...Of course this isn't flawless. Google follows particular rules when indexing pages.
Sounds terrific to this editor! I've got a biblically sized edition in progress (Hall's Chronicle, 1550--about 700,000 words of Hall's text plus quite a lot of notes. Quite frankly, if this is ever to be put up on the web in my or anyone else's lifetime, I need to rely on tools like Google.
I see that Google posts "Guidelines for Webmasters" at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html They seem very oriented toward those who run commercial sites. Are these guidelines adequate for making the kind of material that medievalists create attractive to a search engine like Google? Are there some that scholars would emphasize and others than Google doesn't post?
BTW is it true that Google only index the top n% or K of a file?
Cheers, Al Magary