I'm assuming you mean: Can Google find keywords in tables? And if that's so, the answer is yes.. But it doesn't exactly find "keywords" but it does see links, text, etc, regardless if it's inside of a table or not. I've heard that CSS/xHTML coded site's do better SEO-wise, but no one's ever shown me a dead on, better example. I currently use tables for my site that ranks #3 simply for "layouts" on Google. So I know for a fact tables are fine to use!
well Google can read everything which is meant to be read (actually more than that though it does follow semantic and html rules), Why do you think it won't be able to read keywords in table ?
Well, It's not that I think it won't... My dillema was...I have two pictures side by side (for comparising purpose) and I can only fix the text under them, if I put the pictures and the text into a - 2row/2column table (simple HTML). It's really important for me to rank good for IMAGE1, and I was thinking that table idea could spoil my image ranking. IMAGE1..| IMAGE2 text1.....| text2
Boron - try this out with your info: <table align="center" border="1" width="265"> <tr> <td align="center"> <a href="my-goto-page-1.asp" title="Keyword Phrase 1"> <img src="images/Keyword-Phrase-1.gif" alt="Keyword Phrase 1 - Your City" title="Your company name - Keyword Phrase 1" border="0" width="130"> Keyword Phrase 1</a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="my-goto-page-2.asp" title="Keyword Phrase 2"> <img src="images/Keyword-Phrase-2.gif" alt="Keyword Phrase 1 - Your City" title="Your company name - Keyword Phrase 1" border="0" width="130"> Keyword Phrase 2</a> </td> </tr> </table>
google will still index the word because it can read table. but i suggest that you use an alt image tag so that your image can rank in an image search of google.