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There are also several differencies between search engines what they get indexed. All Body-text usually gets indexed, but some search engines use "stop words" that will be leaved out during indexing. It saves storage space and speeds up searches. Also meta descriptions and meta keywords are indexed, like Altavista does but Google does not. Other small indexing parameters are ALT-texts and comments. The differencies what search engines get indexed is figured below in the table.
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| FULL TEXT | all major ones | |
| STOP WORDS | Altavista, Google | Infoseek |
| META DESCRIPTIONS | Altavista | Google, Lycos |
| ALT-TEXT | Altavista, Google | Excite |
| COMMENTS | Inktomi | Altavista, Google |
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