[GRASS-dev] Keywords in module descriptions

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:10:20PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > > Sorry if I am thick, but in the age of Google what's the point of
> > > defining keywords?
> > 
> > Call it "tag" for a modernized version :-)
> > Everybody is tagging nowadays.
> 
> maybe so, but what's the reason? There are lots of moves to the XML-
> ificaition of everything these days as well, but I don't always see a
> purpose in doing that for everything either.

The whole idea was triggered again by user mails where people
found it hard to find the right command.

Examples
- d.grid vs v.mkgrid
- d.rgb vs r.composite
- the group of the topology vector tools
- one click to find all import modules
- find all vector|raster statistic tools
- find all aggregation tools

the latter aren't easily found just using a search engine.
 
> > Sorry, too late. 30 minutes ago I have submitted it. The main reason
> > was to not make backporting of changes from > 6.2 a continuous pain.
> 
> no worries. I am not really against them or trying to be negative. I am
> just trying to understand how keywords can be used before deciding to
> spend time working on them.
>
> > Feel free to revert.
> 
> I won't.
> 
> > Example:
> > The HTML man pages could use the keyword as metatag which hopefully
> > improves the ranking.
> 
> ok.
> 
> fyi, http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34434&topic=8523
> "We do not manually assign keywords to sites, nor can webmasters submit
> a list of preferred keywords for which their sites will appear."

No problem for me :-)

I was thinking of
 <meta name="keywords" content="...">
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-META

Markus