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[kokopoko]

At a new company now! I noticed that our sites use <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> which seems restrictive. Our top competitor uses <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> which is more in line with what I think we should be using.

Does this meta tag make any difference in how the robots spider the site or how it is viewed?

[Michael Martinez]

Major search engine crawlers will most likely ignore something like that.

[chrishirst]

I noticed that our sites use <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> which seems restrictive.

Restrictive????

All it does is "tell" Internet Explorer 8 and above to emulate the IE7 rendering engine

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