Priyank Garg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Search, has announced an update to Open Directory Project on Yahoo! Search.


Priyank Garg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Search, has announced an update to Open Directory Project on Yahoo! Search.

Garg says, “some webmasters have had issues with titles and abstracts in ODP and have adopted the ‘NOODP’ META tag to indicate to search engines not to use them. As Tim Mayer promised a few days earlier talking to Barry Schwartz on The Pulse, we are launching support for this tag in tonight’s weather update”. [source]

Now onwards, Yahoo! will recognize the following META tags on publishers’ pages:

– META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”

or

– META NAME=”Slurp” CONTENT=”NOODP”.

With these tags, Yahoo! will not consider ODP titles or abstracts as candidates for publishers’ URL in search results, according to Garg.

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