Unfortunately there is no tag to avoid indexing of specific istances of a
word. 

Giulia

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Tom Malaher wrote:

> One of my clients has a site with one of those pulldown
> quick-jump menus on every page.
> 
> <SELECT NAME="Go">
> <OPTION VALUE="topic1">Topic One
> <OPTION VALUE="place2">Place Two
> </SELECT>
> 
> The problem is that this means that if you search for "Topic", it finds
> every page.  Or worse, the index has decided that the word "Topic" is now
> too common and won't even index it.
> 
> Since the text "Topic One" is not inside an HTML tag, swish correctly
> interprets it as content to be indexed.
> 
> Is there any easy way to cause swish to ignore everything inside
> a certain set of <TAG> ... </TAG> pairs, or am I gonna have to hack
> source code...?
> 
> Tom
> 

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