Using oai-pmh to Google-index dictionary content

Doug Cooper doug at TH.NET
Tue Nov 7 11:02:01 UTC 2006


Google is now indexing Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting paths:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34655

   This appears to provide a way to index pages that are normally
generated dynamically; i.e.

  "http://www.imaginary-dictionary-url.com?target=frooble"

can be indexed (on google) with a string like "definition of frooble."

   Does anybody know if there is a minimalist way to use the
oai-pmh format for this purpose?  In other words, I don't want
to set up an OAI server.  Instead, I'd just like to create files that
mimic a server's response to queries like ...oaiserver?verb=Identify
and ...oaiserver?verb=ListRecords _solely_ for the purpose of
satisfying the Google indexing engine.

   I'd be most grateful if anybody could pass along a 'hello, world'
equivalent for this.

    Thanks,
    Doug Cooper
    http://sealang.net



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