jdMorgan - 11:36 pm on Jul 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

Right, I'm thinking of two things: CTR and the effect on the selected "snippet" text if the description text is being deemed a poor match to the search terms. I've seen a rather large effect of Google's CTR monitoring on the top results where I place there. I am assuming from the description of the situation that CTR must be playing a part here, precisely because the description itself isn't (or hasn't recently been) a large player in ranking.

Jim