> From: "Chris Lott" <chrisl at frodo.thethirdsector.com> > > My impression is that meta tags are indexed just like body content, > but not weighted a lot higher like they used to be. And, of course, > SOME search engines (particularly smaller engines that might be in use > for specific projects or sites, etc) do still use meta tags... my [...] well, Lycos uses the description as the abstract for the page... each of the pages at my co. site has a unique meta description... you can see this at (note how each link has a different abstract): http://search.lycos.com/main/default.asp?lpv=1&loc=searchbox&query=%22al gonquin+studios%22+technical+articles