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Old 08-02-2005, 11:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
stainofmind
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Originally Posted by Jim_Westergren
I understand his question and here my answer (what I believe):

Google will show the Meta desc in the SERPs if the search query is the same as the title. If the query is not similar to the title it will show an extract from the text on the web page in which the query was.

Thanks for clarifying when the Meta description is used. I knew Google used it, but wasn't sure when or why it showed sometimes, and other times is did not.
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