[roxxy]

Though most largest search engines do not 'spider' the keyword Meta Tags on your page, and in some cases ignore these completely, the use of Meta Tags on your page still serves an important purpose. There are literally hundreds, even thousands of smaller search engines scattered all across the Internet. Whilst the bigger engines tend to 'spider' whole pages instead and obtain their results from that, these smaller search engines don't have as much physical space to work with and must do things differently. It is in these particular engines you will find that Meta Tags are still very important.

[T2DMan]

And the Meta Description tag is rather an important part of the whole SEO mix.

The meta description tag is often used by Google as its snippet, the 156 character summary of your page that it lists on the search engine SERP's. To get your meta description used for the snippet, you need to have the search phrase mentioned in that phrase twice or more.

[Gracia]

To think that the 'largest search engines' haven't had a little wee sneaky-peek into your meta tags is like thinking that the nurse hasn't seen your dirty shorts. I know that's a bad analogy folks but I'm tired of trying to think up a better one.

Ask yourself roxxy, if the 'largest search engines' in fact know what is in, for example, your keywords meta tag then do they use that information when deciding about what your site and web pages are about and how to position them in the SERPs? What do you think roxxy?

Always use the description and keywords meta tags and use them well.

[she2max]

Honestly speaking apart from top five search engines,smaller one won't get you much traffic.Atmost one in ten thousands and mostly these small ones use records from top five only.But still meta is a good strategy.