There has been much discussion in the search engine world about whether to use meta tags in SEO programming, and whether it still matters to Google. In a recent blog post, Google confirmed they do not use keyword meta tags for their search rankings. However, Google does use the description meta tag as the text for their organic search results snippets.
Companies looking to invest in SEO should not completely ignore the meta tag. Microsoft said that keyword meta tags are still being used in Bing and Yahoo!
