Does google respect NOODP meta?

[dethfire]

I've had <meta name=”robots” content=”NOODP” /> on my pages for months and yet just today Google changed my homepage search result description to the one displayed on DMOZ.

[EditorialGuy]

Officially, Google supports the tag:

[support.google.com...]

[Andem]

That's not valid HTML.

Replace ” with ".

[Robert Charlton]

” with "

Just in case your display is too small to see the distinction, it translates to replace curly quotes with straight quotes.

Some examples from the above-cited Google Support message...

To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page's description, use the following:

<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">

To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page's description, use the following:

<meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP">

[seoskunk]

I have found google is not good at supporting this tag, I suggest:
<meta name="robots" content="NOODP">
<meta name="googlebot" content="NOODP">
<meta name="ffs" content="NOODP">

[RedBar]

Does google respect NOODP meta?

They certainly used to because I had exactly the same situation a few years back when someone at DMOZ unbeknown to me changed my url from my example.com to my test example.biz site!

As soon as I used the meta it was honoured.