[thelist] Tables vrs. CSS for search engines

[Diane Soini]

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 04:09 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

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>> She told me today that=20
>> search engines do=20
>> not search tables, and that all sites should therefor be=20
>> designed purely=20
>> using style sheets. Does anyone know if this is true?=20
>
> One of my sites, http://spinhead.com/ consistently ranks on the first
> page of google for my search terms. It's tables. All tables. I'm not
> even gonna *think* about a tableless version for a while.

My web site also lists at or near the top on a google search and it has 
always been tables, and in the beginning was frames. Even with frames I 
was number one. I, too, won't go to css layout yet. Too buggy, too 
hacky.