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victor - 10:14 am on Dec 13, 2005 (gmt 0)


Google sometimes chooses to display the DMOZ description rather than some words that exist on the page itself. No one knows why, and Google have not explained. There are many theories. If WMW was searchable, you could easily track them down.

One way to get it changed is to ban DMOZ's spider -- it comes round a few times a year to check the page still exists. If you ban it, a few months later you'll drop out of DMOZ, then some months after that, you'll fall out of the Google Directory

That will ensure that Google uses text from the page (or some other source, though I don't think there currently are other sources) for the description.

Alternatively, try to find out why Google prefers the DMOZ description: you may need to escalate through Google's ranks, perhaps eventually becoming a shareholder and asking at the annual company meeting. Good luck!


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