SnaptechSEO - 7:37 pm on Sep 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

It was widely accepted a couple of years ago that meta descriptions had little value too.

Here are a couple of references from Google sources:

[googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com ]
Read the full post + the comments below for reference to the keyword tag.

and

[code.google.com ]
"Next we have two name values: keywords, which these days is mostly useless, ironically, and description, which is still somewhat useful."

As for the other search engines, the only other one I somewhat care about is Yahoo, and my sites do very well in their results without there being a meta-keyword tag on my pages.

If you spend a few minutes searching your favorite SE, you can find dozens of references to this topic

Cheers!