Legacy Googler about description tag

[janslu]

I've stubmled today on a post about description tags. Google's seo specialist says in the video, that it's better not to have a description tag than to use a generic "sitewide" one. I think this might be of use in dbseo
Google: Unique Meta Descriptions Or Not Descriptions At All

 

[Fillip H.]

Interesting, we'll definitely look at this and add it as an option

 

[Fillip H.]

Update: This functionality has been removed by Google as of today. For more info, click here.