ODP Does Not Control MSN Search: Opt Out of Dmoz Titles

[rustybrick]

http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/arch...22/603917.aspx

Opting Out of Open Directory Listings for Webmasters

So what we did was introduce a new option at the page level - a robots meta tag – that tells the MSN search bot not to use the DMOZ site snippet. This is something that only can be done at Web page level, by a webmaster, and is not done as part of the robot.txt file.

So in your Web page you’d put

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP">

or

<META NAME="msnbot" CONTENT="NOODP">

[gabs]

Good on msn.. Wish yahoo would offer that .. .

[Savweb]

Yeah, cool. But first of all i should get in to dmoz! LOL

[hhheng]

Does this noodp accepted by w3c? Anyway, it's useful, because after submitting to DMOZ, you can't change the description, and then that will be very bad for using DMOZ data if you made changes to your website.

[rustybrick]

hhheng, why do you keep bring up old threads?