diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkackshtml b/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
index 917b303..79fe3f9 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
     colnums = []
     for i in range(options.columns):
         colnums.append(percol*i)
+    options.aesop_type = "information"
     fp = options.get_output_file()
     fp.write(string.rstrip(options.get_header()) + "\n")
     fp.write(THANKS + "\n")
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkmodindex b/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
index 23a200e..58ba05e 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 
 
 class IndexOptions(support.Options):
+    aesop_type = "links"
+
     def __init__(self):
         support.Options.__init__(self)
         self.add_args("l", ["letters"])
diff --git a/Doc/tools/support.py b/Doc/tools/support.py
index 187ac21..bc17c6e 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/support.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/support.py
@@ -28,6 +28,24 @@
     uplink = "index.html"
     uptitle = "Python Documentation Index"
 
+    # The "Aesop Meta Tag" is poorly described, and may only be used
+    # by the Aesop search engine (www.aesop.com), but doesn't hurt.
+    #
+    # There are a number of values this may take to roughly categorize
+    # a page.  A page should be marked according to its primary
+    # category.  Known values are:
+    #   'personal'    -- personal-info
+    #   'information' -- information
+    #   'interactive' -- interactive media
+    #   'multimedia'  -- multimedia presenetation (non-sales)
+    #   'sales'       -- sales material
+    #   'links'       -- links to other information pages
+    #
+    # Setting the aesop_type value to one of these strings will cause
+    # get_header() to add the appropriate <meta> tag to the <head>.
+    #
+    aesop_type = None
+
     def __init__(self):
         self.args = []
         self.variables = {"address": "",
@@ -96,6 +114,12 @@
                 link = '<link rel="up" href="%s">' % self.uplink
             repl = "  %s\n</head>" % link
             s = s.replace("</head>", repl, 1)
+        if self.aesop_type:
+            meta = '\n  <meta name="aesop" content="%s">'
+            # Insert this in the middle of the head that's been
+            # generated so far, keeping <meta> and <link> elements in
+            # neat groups:
+            s = s.replace("<link ", meta + "<link ", 1)
         return s
 
     def get_footer(self):