A Study of HTML Title Tag Creation Behavior of Academic Web Sites

1. W3 Consortium, “The global structure of an HTML document,” (N.D.). (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html

2. Ibid.

3. Anurag Acharya, Matt Cutts, Jeffrey Dean, Paul Haahr, Monika Henzinger; Urs Hoelzle, Steve Lawrence, Karl Pfleger, Olcan Sercinoglu & Simon Tong, "Information retrieval based on historical data," United States Patent Application 2005/0071741, Kind Code A 1.

4. Alan Dawson, "Creating metadata that work for digital libraries and Google," Library Review 53 (September 2004): 347-350.

5. Heather Tunender & Jane Ervin, "How to succeed in promoting your web site: The impact of search engine registration on retrieval of a World Wide Web site," Information Technology and Libraries 17 (September 1998): 173-179.

6. G. Christopher, "Effective web site marketing starts in the design phase," Infotech Update 9 (October 2000): 8-12.

7. Danny Sullivan, "Search engine placement tip," Search Engine Watch (2002, October 14). (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2168021

8. Danny Sullivan, "How search engines rank web pages," Search Engine Watch (2003, July 31). (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167961

9. Timothy C. Craven, "HTML tags as extraction cues for web page description construction," Informing Science Journal 6 (2003): 1-12. (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol6/v6p001-012.pdf

10. Lisa Zhao, "Jump higher: analyzing web site rank in Google," Information Technology and Libraries 23 (2004): 108-118.

11. Stephan Spencer, "Gunning for Google," Catalog Age 22 (February 2005): 15-16.

12. Mahesh S. Raisinghani, "Future trends in search engines," Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations 3 (2005): I-VII.

13. Tom Dahm, "Search engine strategies and optimization tips," The Web Developer's Journal, (May 2000). (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/search_strategies_tips.html

14. Alireza Noruzi, "Editorial: The HTML title tag and its importance," Webology 2 (December 2005), Editorial 6. (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n4/editorial6.html

15. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo & Vicente López, "Characteristics of the Web of Spain," Cybermetrics 9 (2005), Paper 3. (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v9i1p3.html

16. Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink & Tefko Saracevic, "Real life, real users and real needs: A study and analysis of users' queries on the Web," Information Processing and Management 36 (March 2000): 207-227.

17. Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Dietmar Wolfram & Tefko Saracevic, "From e-sex to e-commerce: web search changes," IEEE Computer 35 (March 2002): 133-135.

18. Bernard J. Jansen & Amanda Spink, "An analysis of web information seeking and use: Documents retrieved versus documents viewed," in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, (June 23-26, 2003): 65-69.

19. Amanda Spink & Bernard J. Jansen, "A study of web search trends," Webology 1 (December 2004), Article 4. (accessed December 2, 2006), Available: http://www.webology.ir/2004/v1n2/a4.html

20. Alan Dawson, "Creating metadata that work for digital libraries and Google."