i just realized, that https://www.google.com/ has this tag in the <head>
<meta content="noodp" name="robots"/>
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(now they have it) has an element in it's head that fixes a problem Google itself introduced (the problem: using the outdated Open Directory Project for title and snippets)?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
<meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir" />
that's 43 bytes...
If this reaches the right person at, Google: Please, just deprecate it already.