Which commercial search engines recognise AGLS metadata?
The short answer is none at present. But we need to explain this concept as there are two ways of understanding the question. First, in the same way that a search engine goes out and indexes words from a web page it can, at the same time, pick up any metadata that is attached to that web page. As such, when a user undertakes a search and types in a word that conforms to a term in a metadata record, this record will also be picked up. Alternatively, if a commercial search engine fully supports a metadata search, then it would be able to search for terms within a specific element ie ‘look in DC.Title for any occurrence of the word … ’ This would have the effect of only searching in records that had a DC.Title field as opposed to every page in the index. In regard to search engine support for searching the text in metadata fields, all search engines could allow this capability, but few of them do. To support the ability to limit a search to specific metadata fields, the search engine ha
