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Most sites listed in Google and MSN are based on ODP (Open Directory Project or dmoz.org) listing. In fact, they appear to prefer search result descriptions from ODP.

And you know, most times, your page's description can be outdated and your search listing in Google can be inaccurate to say the very least.

Now, there's a simple way how to get Google and MSN to use your own preferred description from your web page..., and, it can be done can be done at web page level. In between your META TAGS, just add:

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

or for MSN...,

<.META NAME="MSNBOT" CONTENT="NOODP".>

This should get Google and other SEs to ignore ODP description and/or content for your web page (not immediately but could take weeks/months).

MSN first introduces this new option in May 2006, and Google, about a month ago if I'm not mistaken. If other crawlers follow suit, some SE experts have advised to add the following for all crawlers...,

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

I'm not sure whether the above will work effectively to rid your page of ODP listing for both Google and MSN and other ROBOTS. I am more incline to play safe here and add both Meta Tags for Google and MSN. If anyone knows anything about this, please fill me in. Thanks.