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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:
[null,null,[],[],["The blog post, dated July 14, 2006, clarifies that using a specific `meta` tag prevents the use of both titles and descriptions from the Open Directory Project (ODP) in search snippets. The `meta` tag `noodp` is effective for both, it was shown on the blog. The blog post also highlights the ability to combine parameters within the `meta` tag, using `noodp` and `noarchive` as an example. The blog author is Vanessa Fox.\n"],null,[]]
