World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[jpharrah]

For those of you not up to speed on search engines, meta tags etc...

Billion dollar operations like Google, Yahoo etc... are not so simplistic that a few html tags can "fool" them. Meta tags have not been useful in attracting major if not all search engines for many years now...

"In my opinion, the meta keywords tag is dead, dead, dead... good riddance, I say!"
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2165061

This is from an article written five years ago!

Anyone putting this stuff at their websites now is wasting their time and anyone who thinks it still works, is at least 5 years behind in the understanding of today's websites. Google etc... would be worthless if all it took was a few meta tags to bring websites to the top of their list!

"deliberately forcing search ROBOTS [aka: bots] to parse ALL content as follows:"

Believe me, not even expensive, major sites can "FORCE" Google, etc... to do anything, those days are long gone.

"As is the case with the Trimax web site, this metadata tactic forces Search engines to rank and catalogue the web site in a manner that is inconsistant with normal, ethical or legal practices in the use and representation of those marks."

No they do not, not anymore, they have not been able to do this for many years now.

I have never heard of an instance where the choice of terms in meta tags was "illegal". Even in the days when they had some usefulness, it was common for companies to put their competitors terms in their meta tags to try and draw their customers to their sites. Most good web designers have always done whatever they could to attract viewers, this was considered good design and "not" a matter of ethics. The fact that "so many" were doing this is why the search engines today are not influenced by it.