On 11/14/05, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
A possible point in favour: using
rel="alternate" together with the hreflang
attribute in <link> elements (as per
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.3, section 12.3.3)
might help search engines make smarter decisions about indexing Wikipedia
content, thus increasing the relevance and availability of Wikipedia content
in Web searches made by the general public.
That's an interesting statement. What evidence do you have to
support it? Can you name any search engines that actually look at
this information?
Regardless of what search engiles do with it it would provide
information to user agents that the document is avalible in an
alternate language.