[10143] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Any interest in automatic link-updating?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Thu Jul 18 15:35:36 1996
To: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lcrocker@calweb.com>,
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:26:35 MST."
<199607172326.QAA29327@web1.calweb.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:26:08 -0400
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
In message <199607172326.QAA29327@web1.calweb.com>, "Lee Daniel Crocker" writes
:,
>That's great for meta-data, and I hope it becomes popular, but
>updating URLs isn't really a meta-data issue. It's more like
>a link-relationship issue, I think. I'd like to see indexers
>like Yahoo understand <link rev=supersedes href=...> to update
>their links automatically, as well as others.
Good idea. This sort of thing was discussed at a recent W3C
workshop. See:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/
and in particular:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ReportOutcomes/index.html
>As for how to get webmasters to follow a convention (no small
>problem), I think right now that a few commercial folks like
>Yahoo and AltaVista have 10x more power than W3C does to make
>that happen. If Yahoo used this one feature to keep its
>links up to date, I think everyone would follow.
That's why we got the search vendors in the room to hash this
stuff out!
Dan
