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A New Meta Tag

sid.calcutta
Google crawlers sometimes uses ODP to get the description of your webpages. Unfortunately ODPs do not update/refresh contents as frequently as most of us would like it to have.
Now Google has introduced a new META Tag to direct search engine crawlers not to use information available in the ODP.

This is the META Tag:

CODE
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">


To specifically direct GoogleBOT, you need to use :

CODE
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP">


See : Inside Google Sitemaps[indent]

Does not it indicate that Google is showing less trust for ODPs ?

Regards,
Sid

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Arbitrary
Hmm...but this mostly applies to those of us who actually are listed in the ODP, right? The rest of the people just automatically get their site summary from a different source...I suppose its a good thing that Google is allowing webmasters to chose between using ODPs as their site description or otherwise; at least that means sites can have accurate descriptions.

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