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Preventing or removing snippets

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A snippet is a text excerpt that appears below a page's title in our search results and describes the content of the page.

To prevent Google from displaying snippets for your page, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:

<meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet">

Note: Removing snippets also removes cached pages.

If you want to your page to have a snippet in our search results, but want to prevent Google from using description information from the Open Directory Project, you can use the robots META tag.

updated 6/10/2009

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