05-24-2006, 12:22 PM
MSN Search has added a new metatag that allows webmasters to indicate to the MSN Crawler that they don't want MSN to use the ODP Directory's description of their site:
full blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/...03917.aspx
Quote:Opting Out of Open Directory Listings for Webmasters
Just to give some background, the Open Directory Project at dmoz.org is a repository of millions of human-edited descriptions...
What has bothered the webmasters previously is that when search engines preferred search result descriptions from dmoz.org, they did not empower webmasters to opt-out of those descriptions. This can be especially annoying if the descriptions from dmoz.org are outdated, or just plain inaccurate.
So what we did was introduce a new option at the page level - a robots meta tag that tells the MSN search bot not to use the DMOZ site snippet. This is something that only can be done at Web page level, by a webmaster, and is not done as part of the robot.txt file.
So in your Web page youd put
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
or
<META NAME="msnbot" CONTENT="NOODP">
full blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/...03917.aspx