Yesterday Google announced via its Sitemaps Blog that Google implemented a new feature to let site owners not display snippets from Open Directory Project (ODP or DMOZ).

The problem is some DMOZ descriptions Google used to use as a snippet to a site are inaccurate and out of date. But Google resolved this problem with the single simple move – a metatag generated to inform Google bot that DMOZ description shouldn’t serve a snippet to a particular site.

Here are the instructions that Google Sitemap blog gives tyo webmasters:

To direct all search engines that support the meta tag not to use ODP information for the page’s description, use the following:

Note that not all search engines may support this meta tag, so check with each for more information.

To direct Google specifically from using this information to describe a page, use the following:

These tags are easy to implement and will ensure the description from DMOZ will not show as a snippet to your site on Google and other search engines that support this feature.

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