Editing Meta element (section)

=====NOODP=====
The search engines [[Google]], [[Yahoo!]] and [[Live Search|MSN]] used in some cases the title and abstract of the [[DMOZ]] (aka Open Directory Project) listing of a website for the title and/or description (also called snippet or abstract) in the [[search engine results page]]s (SERP). To give [[webmaster]]s the option to specify that the Open Directory Project content should not be used for listings of their website, Microsoft introduced in May 2006 the new "<code>NOODP</code>" value for the "<code>robots</code>" element of the meta tags.<ref>Betsy Aoki (May 22, 2006), [http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/05/22/603917.aspx Opting Out of Open Directory Listings for Webmasters], ''Live Search Blog'', retrieved June 3, 2007</ref> Google followed in July 2006<ref>Vanessa Fox (July 13, 2006), [http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-control-over-page-snippets.html More control over page snippets], ''Inside Google Sitemaps'', retrieved June 3, 2007</ref> and Yahoo! in October 2006.<ref>Yahoo! Search (October 24, 2006), [http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000368.html Yahoo! Search Weather Update and Support for 'NOODP'], ''Yahoo! Search Blog'', retrieved June 3, 2007</ref>

By 2017, Google reported stopping the use of [[DMOZ]], following its closure, hence, NOODP directive is ignored since.<ref>[https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2017/06/better-snippets-for-your-users Better Snippets for your Users]</ref>

The syntax is the same for all search engines who support the tag.
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<meta name="robots" content="noodp" >
</syntaxhighlight>

Webmasters can decide if they want to disallow the use of their ODP listing on a per search engine basis

Google:
<syntaxhighlight lang="html"><meta name="googlebot" content="noodp" ></syntaxhighlight>

Yahoo!
<syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<meta name="Slurp" content="noodp" ></syntaxhighlight>

MSN and Live Search (via [[bingbot]], previously [[msnbot]]): <syntaxhighlight lang="html">
<meta name="bingbot" content="noodp" ></syntaxhighlight>