If you still are doubting if to use meta description tag in the site structure or not from now it is confirmed that Google do use meta description tag. It was revealed in Google Groups discussion by Vanessa Fox – Google representative. Her answer to the other member’s question concerning Google indexing issues is the following:

Looking at your site in the search results, it appears that your pages would be well served by meta description tags. For most queries, the generated snippet is based on where the query terms are found on the page, and in those cases, your results are fine. But for some more generic queries, where a logical snippet isn’t found in the text, the generated snippet seems to be coming from the first bits of text from the page — in this case, boilerplate navigation that is the same for every page.

So generally speaking, making use of meta description tag not only adds your page uniqueness but makes it’s snippet work for you.

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