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SVG and the Indexing of Web Standards

Posted by kdawson on from the formata-non-grata dept.

wombatmobile writes "The world's most popular search engine company is a leading supporter of open standards. It pours money and people into initiatives that promote, assist, support and implement Web standards. As a core foundation of is mission statement, all web assets should ideally be of a kind that it can work with. Strange then, that the world's most popular search engine doesn't index all of the current important Web standards formats. Doug Schepers of W3C blogs about how Scalable Vector Graphics content is recognized and not recognized by search engines, currently and historically." Readability really helps out on this site.

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  1. Google and Indexing by mjwalshe · · Score: 0, Troll

    err sorry there is no god given right for all of your pages to be indexed, Google only indexes pages it considers important and that will (in Googles opinion) add value to a searcher.

    What information in a SVG would be useful to a searcher? And SVG and flash are difficult for Google to spider and extract useful information from.

    For such low quality pages why should any search engine waste resource on it? Its just wasting their resources and also a svg page counts towards a sites page cap so its not good for the sites owner.

  2. What company? by identity0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The world's most popular search engine company is a leading supporter of open standards.

    Bing uses open standards?! o_O I guess Microsoft has changed....