Yahoo Search Engine Shows 5 Year-old Description.

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    How do I update this? I guess Yahoo doesn't pull it from the description tag?
     
    bingwalker, Feb 12, 2007 IP
  2. sezerb

    sezerb Guest

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    Is is getting it from the description of the site in it's directory?
     
    sezerb, Feb 12, 2007 IP
  3. snoopsta

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    #3
    wow that's unheard of! perhaps you need to build some more links to get the engines to recrawl your website.
     
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  4. jabb

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    Thats the most likely reason, if your listed in the yahoo directory in most cases they use the title and description from there. Theres still no tag to stop this at the moment either.
     
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  5. fadetoblack

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    Try checking it after some time ..might be a glitch in the yahoo spider
     
    fadetoblack, Feb 12, 2007 IP
  6. gio

    gio Well-Known Member

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    5 Year-old Description? never heard of that.
    can u post your url here?
     
    gio, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  7. fweikeong

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    It is either pulling from the site description from an old Yahoo dir listing, or from dmoz listing. These days google/yahoo/msn are just acting strange every now and then.
     
    fweikeong, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  8. protocol96

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    #8
    I kno of a website which doesnt have the description tag but still the description comes up, on further investing I came to kno that it was pulling in from one of the directories
     
    protocol96, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  9. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    yahoo is the most strange search engine . i have closed one of my web sites nearly one year ago . it keeps the index of that web site yet
     
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  10. DaddyMustang

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    it's way to long , let's see the url
     
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  11. xfiver

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    If the description is taken from DMOZ (ODP) then you can change the description to your description. Add this code:

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

    Wait for the crawler to stop by and it should be changed.

    In case the description is taken from the Yahoo! Directory, then you're out of luck. There is no way around that yet, maybe emailing the Yahoo! guys. I heard there will be a separate tag for that soon, so sit tight.
     
    xfiver, Feb 19, 2007 IP