Petition Google: Please deprecate "content='noodp' name='robots'"

1 point

14 years ago

i just realized, that https://www.google.com/ has this tag in the <head>

so let me get this straight, the company which was once famous to not have a closing </html> tag (now they have it) has an element in it's head that fixes a problem Google itself introduced (the problem: using the outdated Open Directory Project for title and snippets)?

how many page views, does google have daily on it's homepage? 1 billion? well, then these 34 bytes add up to 324MB daily (or 115 GB per year).

ok, but that's not all. facebook.com has this on www.facebook.com

that's 43 bytes...

If this reaches the right person at, Google: Please, just deprecate it already.