Comments on: Computational justification for the use of meta descriptions and keywords http://www.brianmcquay.com/computational-justification-for-the-use-of-meta-descriptions-and-keywords/103 My Ruby on Rails experience, web development tips including SEO, and contributions to open source projects Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.brianmcquay.com/computational-justification-for-the-use-of-meta-descriptions-and-keywords/103/comment-page-1#comment-1343 admin Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:31:15 +0000 http://www.brianmcquay.com/computational-justification-for-the-use-of-meta-descriptions-and-keywords/103#comment-1343 I slept on this idea and now its not making much sense to me. A better way to skip processing pages would probably be to hash the page and compare the current hash with the previous hash for the page. Its a quick way to see if something has changed on the page. If the hashes are different then they'd parse the entire page to see what's changed. I'm trying to justify my original post in my head but I can't think of a reason now that meta tags would help save computations for search engines. I slept on this idea and now its not making much sense to me. A better way to skip processing pages would probably be to hash the page and compare the current hash with the previous hash for the page. Its a quick way to see if something has changed on the page.

If the hashes are different then they’d parse the entire page to see what’s changed. I’m trying to justify my original post in my head but I can’t think of a reason now that meta tags would help save computations for search engines.

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