The proposal to merge lp:~mbp/launchpad/meta-description into lp:launchpad has 
been updated.

Description changed to:

Google sometimes generates lame page summaries for Launchpad pages, containing 
garbage that occurs near the start of the page.

We can give it a better clue by putting in meta description tags.

For an actual search it will often but not always generate its own summary 
looking at the page text, but the meta description is sometimes used there.  
The meta description seems to be very often used when sharing a link on g+ and 
facebook and at the moment it looks awful.

See:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

before: https://plus.google.com/112646476239496153808/posts/bMVdVYUP6XA

after: https://plus.google.com/112646476239496153808/posts/BRxTsjaUeWu

hooray!

We could do this for other pages too, but we can start with bugs and merge 
proposals.

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mbp/launchpad/meta-description/+merge/82769
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https://code.launchpad.net/~mbp/launchpad/meta-description/+merge/82769
Your team Launchpad code reviewers is requested to review the proposed merge of 
lp:~mbp/launchpad/meta-description into lp:launchpad.

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