17922 2012-07-18 07:17:31 +0000 HTML should provide a tag called <index> so that the authors of the web pages can enclose words and phrases that they think should be indexed. This would help search engines and others who would like to index web pages. Even the web authors could use a 2012-09-05 23:16:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike theimp contributor oldest_to_newest 70305 0 contributor 2012-07-18 07:17:31 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 16497 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-03-23 17:37:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-03-23 17:37:40 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: HTML should provide a tag called <index> so that the authors of the web pages can enclose words and phrases that they think should be indexed. This would help search engines and others who would like to index web pages. Even the web authors could use a program that could auto generate an index page from various web pages on a topic for web publication. Posted from: 24.63.58.162 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11 ================================================================================ #1 theimp@iinet.net.au 2012-07-05 02:50:36 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, as we have seen with the keywords meta attribute in the past, this is open to abuse, to such a degree, that it will be unimplemented. However, perhaps you could use <mark>, and if search engines develop algorithms to determine levels of "trust" for documents, they could then optionally consider your use of <mark> to have an effect similar to your proposal for <index>. ================================================================================ 73266 1 ian 2012-09-05 23:16:09 +0000 Is this a request from a search engine manufacturer? (People who don't work for search engines tend to have a very different idea of what would be helpful for search engines than those who don't, which is why I ask.)