Site has appeared on search engine with wrong description

[coiL]

Hi, I just discovered that my site has been indexed by google. However the description that appears in the search results looks like random words taken off my front page. I do have meta tags for keywords and description ... is there anything I can do to make the right description appear?

thanks

[TheOriginalH]

Description can be pulled from Meta Tags, but you can't force it - many engines ignore them comepletly. In those cases you will either have an opportunity to provide them with a description on submission, or they will take the first substantive bit of text from your page....

Which engine was it?

[aspen]

He said Google. Google create's it's own abstract from your page, if you're listed in DMOZ that description will appear as well.

[TheOriginalH]

Originally posted by aspen
He said Google. Google create's it's own abstract from your page, if you're listed in DMOZ that description will appear as well.

Doh! - Damn, I'm not awake today - er, yep, what Aspen said then