Is there any search engine out there that supports searching by <head> meta tags?
For example, Is it possible to search for all the websites that have the “Author” meta tag set to “Company”?
<meta name="Author" content="Company" />
Thanks!
This is an archived forum and the content is probably no longer relevant, but is provided here for posterity.
The active forums are here.
December 11, 2008 1:29pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Dec 11, 2008 1:29pm
Is there any search engine out there that supports searching by <head> meta tags?
For example, Is it possible to search for all the websites that have the “Author” meta tag set to “Company”?
<meta name="Author" content="Company" />
Thanks!
#2 / Dec 11, 2008 2:24pm
Google search does this pretty well. Just search for (with the quotes) ”<meta name=Author content=Company />”
#3 / Dec 11, 2008 4:54pm
Hi Nick,
I’m afraid you missed what I was trying to accomplish. It is more like a “semantic” search.
What you suggested is a plain text search, that is, I’m telling Google to search that string in the <body> of the html page.
What I requested is the ability to search for some text string in the content of the <head> meta tags.
If I’m searching for sites powered by Wordpress 2.6.5, I would type “Wordpress 2.6.5” (quotes included for exact match) in a special text input field designed to find by generator meta tag. That way, the search engine would return all sites that match exactly the string “WordPress 2.6.5” in the content of their genrator meta tag (for example <meta name=“generator” content=“WordPress 2.6.5” /> )