bwnbwn - 10:05 pm on Feb 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

Google thinks there useful as well. If Google took the time to program in webmaster accounts a link to see repeated descriptions and titles then yes they are important. Besides that do you want the bot to pick and chose your description.

Case point looked at a site last week no descriptions so on one of the internal pages the bot picked the website design companys name and phone number for the description. The said how did this get here I pointed out you didn't descripe the pages so the bot did it for you, they are now in the process of adding good titles and descriptions to all their pages.