July 14, 2006 Comments
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For all the frustrated webmasters that have long lamented the fact that outdated and inaccurate DMOZ descriptions pop up with their search results on Google, there's finally a solution. Google has announced that they will honor a new meta tag designed to tell Googlebot that you'd rather not have your DMOZ description used as the text snippet for your site.
Google made the announcement on the Google Sitemaps Blog earlier today.
From the post:
To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the page's description, use the following:
< META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
Note that not all search engines may support this meta tag, so check with each for more information.
To direct Google specifically from using this information to describe a page, use the following:
< META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP">
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