July 14, 2006
Yesterday we told you that you can
use a meta
tag to ask us not to use descriptions
of your site from the
Open Directory Project
(ODP) when we generate snippets. Some of you have asked if this meta
tag prevents us from using
the title from the ODP as well. Yes, this meta
tag does apply to both the title and description
from the ODP.
Also, as noted in our
webmaster help center, you can combine parameters
in the meta
tag. So, for instance, you could use the following meta
tag:
<meta="robots" content="noodp, noarchive">