Google Search/PG Header Suggestion

A thought just occured to me concerning Google searches and PG texts... It was mentioned in a previous thread that Google has set up a way to prioritize a search, such that "book" plus your term will give added priority to your search with its Google Print database. One searches Google Print through its normal search engine. The Print results (if any) come up first, followed by external internet site results. The current PG header does not actually have the word "book" in it. The term "ebook" is used a couple times. If the header could be rewritten to include the word "book" somewhere, then PG texts may come up higher in search results, when browers are searching for on-line texts by title or author. Obviously the PG book would not come up as a Google Print result, but may be more visible in the other results. --------------------------- Dennis McCarthy nihil_obstat@mindspring.com

Dennis McCarthy wrote:
The current PG header does not actually have the word "book" in it. The term "ebook" is used a couple times. If the header could be rewritten to include the word "book" somewhere, then PG texts may come up higher in search results, when browers are searching for on-line texts by title or author.
Searches by author or title bring up the "bibrec" page because it is far shorter than the whole etext and because it has the search words wrapped in <h1> which gives them more weight. The bibrec pages already have the keyword "book" in the html header. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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