Google adding info between noscript tags as site description in Serps

[No5needinput]

A couple of weeks back I added the code below to my website just after the closing </h1> header tag on all my website pages. Adding the code made sense to me - due to the topic/nature of the site - as a way of notifying visitors early that some components of the site wouldn't work with JS turned off.

<noscript>Please Note: Your browser does not support JavaScript. Some website functions may not work as intended.</noscript>

However the past couple of days I noticed Google has increasingly been adding the exact wording as the noscript sentence in the Serp "description snippet" of my sites listing. Whereas before, in just about all cases, my sites description was taken from my header description metatag.

I thought Googlebot read/spoke Javascript?

Not to mention the fact it should have learnt years ago not to use text between

<noscript></noscript>

tags in search results.

[not2easy]

This is quite likely a result of where it is placed - right after the closing </h1> tag. Since it is not visible unless javascript is disabled by the visitor, you can place it anywhere it would be visible and it would probably be ignored by Google. By being the first text found after the headline it has a position of importance to Google, they see it as significant content.

The same information could be placed in a high contrast image (yellow on black?) between <noscript> tags and remove any chance of the text being seen as content or used in a description. I would look at your description meta information as well, to be sure it can be used and seen as accurately describing the page's content.

I agree that they should be able to see it for what it is, but if they don't, I'm not sure you can fix that.