- Web spec searches for small businesses
Date: 2003-01-15 Source: ZDNet
SMBmeta, which stands for small and medium-sized business metadata, defines a standardized way to describe businesses in an electronic format. The project could greatly benefit small and medium-sized businesses, since it could make them more visible in the top search results of Google and other leading Internet search engines.
[Open In New Window] - Internet to be more user-friendly
Date: 2002-12-11 Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The metadata standard encourages consistency in the way keywords and web pages are constructed to ensure information can be found without thousands of irrelevant listings.
[Open In New Window] - Metadata or Metagarbage?
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Date: 2002-03-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
Metadata is the holy grail for improving search, according to its advocates. Garbage! replies one critic, detailing seven reasons while even the most promising metadata schemes will fail.
[Open In New Window] - Metadata for Everyone
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Date: 2001-08-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
The W3C, the closest thing the web has to a standards committee, has released Annotea, an open source "annotation" capability that lets anyone create metadata about web pages that is stored on separate "annotation servers."
[Open In New Window] - Portal Maximizer Helps Portals Soar
Date: 2001-04-03 Source: Search Engine Guide
Active Navigation's Portal Maximizer helps corporate portals and vertically-focused web sites classify large amounts of information with enhanced metadata and contextual navigation.
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