[b]Specific[/b] searching of header text and/or html comment text

myhandle

Does any search engine allow specific searching of header text and/or html comment text?

Description text and keywords are indexed but can they be searched specifically, in an advanced search?

Google doesn't seem to.
http://www.google.ie/advanced_search?hl=en
"Occurrences: Return results where my terms occur"

mneylon

What exactly do you mean?

dahamsta

I reckon they mean the ability to lock a search down to elements in the head (META tags) or comments in the BODY. I've never seen anything like that on any of the major search engines myhandle.

adam

myhandle

Originally posted by dahamsta
I reckon they mean the ability to lock a search down to elements in the head (META tags) or comments in the BODY. I've never seen anything like that on any of the major search engines myhandle.

adam

Yes, thats what I mean!

mneylon

I think I get it now.
If it's for internal use you could use a spider to pull the content out for you...

seamus

I don't think so. My EOY project this year was a metasearcher, so I've had a look at all of the major engines, and most of them offer nothing like this. Lycos allows you to search within the title or text or both, but I don't know if that includes meta tags.

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ is a directory of pretty much every engine in existence, which you can trawl through if it's that important

dahamsta

myhandle, if you're looking at software solutions for local indexes, I'm not sure, but ht://Dig (google) would probably be worth a look. If it's public indexes, your best bet would be to take a poke at Google API's, although I still wouldn't hold my breath.

John McCormac might have something to say on this.

HTH,
adam