Reply to post: Most meta content tags are ignored

Google versus the EU: Sigh. You can't exploit a contestable monopoly

Duncan Macdonald

Most meta content tags are ignored

There used to be a lot of sites with invalid data in the meta content fields (an old spamming trick). It got so bad that search engines ignore or give a low weighting to most (if not all) of the meta content fields not backed up by visible text.

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