src/hg/htdocs/index.html dcd410bcd2c37a5892bdb139475fdf10dac14bcd

dcd410bcd2c37a5892bdb139475fdf10dac14bcd
lrnassar
  Tue Jun 2 14:38:32 2026 -0700
Update home page meta description tag with a longer, descriptive value. refs #37335

The previous tag was too short for Google to use, so it synthesized its own
search snippet. Replaces it with a richer, broad-audience description while
avoiding numbers that fall out of date.

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/index.html src/hg/htdocs/index.html
index f8750692117..3460344f8c8 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/index.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/index.html
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <!--#set var="TITLE" value="UCSC Genome Browser Home" -->
 <!--#set var="ROOT" value="." -->
 
 <head>
-    <meta name="description" content="UCSC Genome Browser">
+    <meta name="description" content="Explore, visualize, and compare the world's genomic data with the UCSC Genome Browser: free, open-access tools spanning thousands of species.">
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
     <meta name="keywords" content="genome, genome browser, human genome, genome assembly, Blat, UCSC, bioinformatics, gene prediction, SNP, SNPs, EST, mRNA, mouse genome, rat genome, chicken genome, chimp genome, dog genome, fruitfly genome, zebrafish genome, xenopus, frog genome, rhesus, opossum, danio rerio genome, drosophila, fugu, yeast, ciona,  comparative genomics, human variation, hapMap">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style/jWest.css">
 </head>
 
     <!-- Banner -->
     <div id="banner" class="jwBanner">
         <a class="jwAnchor" href="http://www.ucsc.edu/">
           <div class="jwUcscLogoWrapper">
             <img alt="University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute logo" src="../images/GIlogo.png" class="jwUcscLogoWrapper">
           </div>
         </a>
         <img alt="UCSC DNA helix arch logo" src="../images/ucscHelixLogo.png" class="jwBannerHelixLogo">
         <div class="jwBannerTitle">
           Genome Browser