Do search engines index content within an iframe?

This test will seek to determine if search engines index content within an iframe.

An iframe is an inline frame for the inclusion of external objects, including other HTML documents.

An HTML code to create an iframe looks like this:

<IFRAME src="http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/iframe-contents.html"></IFRAME>

The resulting iframe looks like this:

Testing Methodology

Using the search engines below, search for the special text string contained in the iframe above.

Evaluation Methodology

Using the search engines below, search for the special text string contained in the iframe above.

If this page shows up in those search results, then that search engine most likely indexes the content of iframes.

Search Engine	Expected Result
Google	No
Yahoo	Unknown
MSN	Unknown
AltaVista	Unknown
AllTheWeb	Unknown

Caveats

This page was put online on 20 September, 2004. It will take some time for each search engine to crawl and index this page to make this test "live."

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