excluding drop down menus from search

[manomahendran]

How can I exclude google from Indexing the content from the drop down menus.
e.g
<option value="http://www.aricept.com*_blank">Aricept&reg; (donepezil hydrochloride tablets)</option>
<option value="http://www.bextra.com*_blank">Bextra&reg; (valdecoxib)</option>
<option value="http://www.celebrex.com*_blank">Celebrex&reg; (celecoxib)</option>

If I search for "Aricept", the page contaning this dropdown shows up which I do not want.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
M

[espeed]

If you don't want a bot to index a page, put the page in your robots.txt file. For more info, see: [robotstxt.org...]

[manomahendran]

thanks for the quick response. I should I have been more specific about drop downs.
I want the page to be crawled but not the drop down in the page.
Thanks
M

[MeditationMan]

Exclude the pages that the links point to. (Sorry, but that's all I can thing of. Probably not very helpful!)

[manomahendran]

Thanks for your response. Search results shows this page with the dropdown for searches that are not part of the page (except the drop down), so it is a little misleading for the users when they click on the result and see no information about thier search except in the drop down which is hidden for the user.
Thanks,
M

[espeed]

You could write some code to check the user-agent, and if it is a known bot, don't output the drop-down menu.

[Timona]

My suggestion would be to put the box in javascript. Per what I know googlebot does not follow that.

[manomahendran]

Thanks Timona
I included the Drop Downs as a javascript file and it worked.

[gilli]

Have you tried:

<META name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,NO FOLLOW">