The open directory project or dmoz.com is a human edited directory. The descriptions from the ODP have been used by msn.com for listings and in many cases are outdated or contain errors. MSN.com now gives a way for webmasters to control this and remove the ODP descriptions.
So in your Web page you’d put
meta NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”
or
meta NAME=”msnbot” CONTENT=”NOODP”
For more on this you can visit MSN’s Weblog.
To bad msn doesn’t just say the heck with ODP as it’s purpose has been long outlived and has no value in ranking or categorizing websites. Maybe that will be the next step.
[…] Google is following in the footsteps of MSN, wow that is funny. But it’s true, MSN previously decided to let webmasters decide to remove the ODP (or DMOZ) title and descriptions from their site listings and now Google has done the same. You can add this code to your site and not have to have with your DMOZ: […]