Meta tags are components of the header of an HTML page that give
'hints' to search engines and other crawlers as to what a page or site
contains. The 'description' tag is often used to provide a concise
description of what a website contains, and so is often used by search
engines as the short text displayed with the page title in a search
result page. I believe that Google uses them in search results, but
they are not specific to any single search engine or website.

These two links describe the way these tags are used:
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167931
http://www.philb.com/metatag.htm

Of course, if you change the Meta tags on your sites, you may not see
the changes in the Google results page until the page is re-indexed by
Google's bots, which may take several days or longer.

Oh, and the 'Pali Wiki' thing was just a remark to the list regarding
an earlier thread about creating a Wiki-style system for storing
Pali-related information.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:25:52 -0000, junet9876 <junet9876@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Clay,
>
> What tags exactly do we use to tell Google what to display? Is this
> Google-specific or is it a general search engine thing?
>
> What's Pali Wiki?
>
> Thank you, (And also thanks for your detailed explanation!! I appreciate
> it!!)
> June
>
>
> > You might also consider using Meta tags to help indicate to Google
> > what to display as a search result, if you aren't already.
> >
> > Does anyone on the list know of a good set of links for this sort of
> > information? If some exist, it would make an excellent addition to
> > the link list, or to our theoretical Pali Wiki.
> >
> > Clay Collier
>
>
>
>
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