#microformats 2022-04-07

2022-04-07 UTC
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tantek
edited /search-engines (+177) "/* Technorati Kitchen */ found web archive links to contacts and events search UIs!"
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gregorlove
edited /metaformats-brainstorming (+467) "/* name description */ FB falls back to meta name=description, add their Sharing Debugger test tool; Google quote"
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jacky
gregorlove++
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Loqi
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gRegor
I know they're pushing their structured data, but I would still hope Google's Rich Results Test tool would show meta description so you could test what might be in search results
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gRegor
But I guess they use their magic to sometimes use the page content instead "Google sometimes uses <meta> tag content to generate snippets, if we think they give users a more accurate description than can be taken directly from the page content."
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gRegor
So far only found third-party tools to test meta description
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[tantek]1
Their "results test tool" doesn't actually correlate with what they decide to show on their SERPs. Hence I don't consider Google Search's implementation to be "testable"
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[tantek]1
they have a validator for their hypothetical markup sure. yet it's well known that SERPs only show a tiny fraction of the stuff their validator finds (from schema org etc.)
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gRegor
yeah, it seems like they don't want to make a test tool that will show what the results *actually* are, so they can change them around based on whatever criteria they have. Frustrating.
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gRegor
Added the blockquote just for reference. understood it's not testable.
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[tantek]1
It's good to document it explicitly so when the SEO folks drop by they see we've already considered it
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