Andrew Scherpbier (andrew@contigo.com)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 08:58:16 -0700
Colin Viebrock wrote:
>
> Say I have a website where the code:
>
> Sample<I>Code</I>
>
> is all over. That's the brandname - including the italics. If I do an
> htdig search for "SampleCode", I get no matches.
>
> Shouldn't htdig strip out all the HTML? Or is there a conf setting I need
> to do this?
htdig does strip out the HTML, but it has no knowledge of the semantics of the
HTML tags for those types of markups, so it assumes it is a word break.
Just out of curiosity, how do other search engines deal with this problem?
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