From hadley at rice.edu  Fri Apr  1 21:57:06 2011
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:57:06 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage
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> Interesting. What's odd is that although that phrasing is used in multiple places on the net, it is not in the actual www.r-project.org/index.html, nor in any other "official" places that I can spot.
>
> However, what gets displayed for SAS and Stata is not what is in their description tags?

Google takes the description tag as advice, but if it thinks the page
is actually about something else, it will write its own summary.

Hadley


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[Rd] Adding a "description" meta-tag to the R homepage
Hadley Wickham