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  2. JDK-6214404

Add meta tag with date for improved searching

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • P3
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    • 5.0
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    Description

      The date currently appears in the generated file as follows:

      <!-- Generated by javadoc (build 1.5.0-rc) on Wed Aug 11 07:21:52 PDT 2004 -->

      Search engines cannot easily parse this. The information would
      be much more readily available if it were in a meta tag.

      This date specifies when the document was generated.
      The date is trivial to provide, and the only practical one we can
      provide. This should be close enough to the release to be of value.

      NOTE: Google web search ignores meta tags, but they would not be
      ignored by Sun's search engine (or possibly Google desktop search).

      Ultraseek requires a W3C standard date tag and cannot, by default, read
      custom tags such as DC and modified/create/etc date tags. The preferred
      format is:

      <meta name="date" content="YYYY-MM-DD">


      ###@###.### 2005-1-06 01:05:25 GMT

      >> if we use name="version", will Ultraseek automatically use
      >> it,and if so, how? How are these different?
      >>
      >> <meta name="version" content="5.0">
      >> <meta name="keywords" content="5.0">

      If we use keyword then it will be automatically indexed by Ultraseek,
      but not sure that helps unless the user searches for 5.0. I don't
      believe it's possible to reverse the number ranking so that 3 comes
      before 2 and 2 comes before 1. Plus, if we were able to do some advanced
      results page filtering it might be much better to have a unique tag. On
      the otherhand, if "5.0" appears in the page body, Google will use it in
      ranking. If 5.0 does not appear in the page body it won't be used (at
      least that's what I can determine from speaking w/some folks at Google).

      ###@###.###

      "5.0" does already appear in the body page (upper right corner).
      I suppose we could implement both meta tags so we have full flexibility.



      ###@###.### 2005-1-07 00:18:40 GMT

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              dkramersunw Douglas Kramer (Inactive)
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