Article on MSN Search Engine use of Dmoz Descriptions

Often if your site is listed in the MSn search engine instead of the description tag being used underneath the link to the site the Dmoz description is being used.

In May 2006, in response to user feedback, the MSN search engine agreed that the description from the Open Directory Project (ODP) was not always the mosts suitable description for the search engine to use. This has led to the development of a system for webmasters, and site owners, to opt out of having their ODP descriptions used.

How to tell MSN not to use the Dmoz Description

MSN has introduced a new META tag that will allow for this pot out procedure. This tag lets the MSN search engine spider know that you do not wish the ODP description to be used.

you can use either the meta tag:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">
or
<META NAME="msnbot" CONTENT="NOODP">

nb : The changes may take a couple of days to show up in the MSN search results.

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