Description or Abstract?

G. Edward Johnson (lorax@speckle.ncsl.nist.gov)
Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:11:41 -0400 (EDT)

I have seen a post here advocating the use of <META HTTP-EQUIV=abstract
CONTENT="..."> and have set up my pages to use it. Recently, while
looking at altavista and infoseek I notice they used <META
HTTP-EQUIV=description ...>. In fact, infoseek says that if description
is used, they will display that in the results page.

My question then is which should I use? Do all search engines that pay
attention to stuff like this use description, or do some use abstract, or
both?

Edward.

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