[Rick]

I wrote to Google:

My Email

Hello,

Just wondering if you can help us with this matter.

When searching for 'Guns n Roses' on google, the first listing in the
search results is the official guns n roses site (www.gnronline.com), below the
listing is the description of the site:

"Includes news and information on Chinese Democracy expected April 2005."

Some people think that the description is added/modified by Google, others think that the information is embedded in the meta tags on the site.

Could you please confirm either of these theories.

Many thanks.

Rick W*****m
(On behalf of the members of mygnrforum.com)


Their Reply

Hi Rick,

Thank you for your note. The creation of snippets is completely automated
and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to
it that appear on the web. We're unable to manually change a site's
description. We're always working to make our snippets as relevant as
possible, and we'll keep your feedback in mind for the future.

Regards,
The Google Team

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So please, no more Google threads....

R.

This post has been edited by x_Estranged_x: 05 February 2005 - 05:18 PM

[Wild_Child]

thanks for clearing that up, but noobies who havent seen this still will post google stuff...

[AnEskimo]

Finally got all this shit cleared up.

[Spoon87]

i think google and Axl work together and are playing with us...

[JeffreyIsabell]

Spoon87, on Feb 5 2005, 06:03 PM, said:

i think google and Axl work together and are playing with us...

probably

[bucket13]

VERY kewl of you xestrangedx. Glad to have that final answer! I think that this should be PINNED and morphed with thunderstruck's post on the difference between google and how all the other search engines DONT have the release date.

[Rick]

bucket13, on Feb 5 2005, 11:43 PM, said:

VERY kewl of you xestrangedx. Glad to have that final answer! I think that this should be PINNED and morphed with thunderstruck's post on the difference between google and how all the other search engines DONT have the release date.

I'm suprised no one did it before me. I'm so sick of seeing google threads i thought i'd find out from them what the hell is happening.

R.

[bucket13]

x_Estranged_x, on Feb 5 2005, 06:58 PM, said:

bucket13, on Feb 5 2005, 11:43 PM, said:

VERY kewl of you xestrangedx. Glad to have that final answer! I think that this should be PINNED and morphed with thunderstruck's post on the difference between google and how all the other search engines DONT have the release date.

I'm suprised no one did it before me. I'm so sick of seeing google threads i thought i'd find out from them what the hell is happening.

R.

I know its annoying to have untrue shit just be repeated over and over again.

[kopie85]

Ahhh google makes me mad.

[pet0]

So where does the description of the website actually come from?

[abitestranged]

Oh my God finally...all this time I'm been saying the same thing and no one listend to me. People pointed out their own proof saying that google added them even after telling them that machines can't do it plus no person is gonna add random information for those countless of subjects searchable in google.

[texastechster]

no way - guess what? Google says that CD is coming out in April '05!!!! Amazing, huh? Oh wait, I'm a noob. HA!

[highvoltage]

bucket13, on Feb 5 2005, 06:43 PM, said:

VERY kewl of you xestrangedx. Glad to have that final answer! I think that this should be PINNED and morphed with thunderstruck's post on the difference between google and how all the other search engines DONT have the release date.

Is thunderstruck a reference to me?

And xEstrangedx - I take my hat off to you and fully admit that I was partially wrong.

[Rick]

highvoltageacdc, on Feb 6 2005, 03:51 AM, said:

And xEstrangedx - I take my hat off to you and fully admit that I was partially wrong.

Thanks, i forgive you

R.

[matt_barker]

thanks! you rock