This came as a big surprise to me. All the SEO schools have been teaching the importance of “keyword” html metatag.

I think this is a nice move by Google. It will curb the menace of keword stuffing. Now on I will not have to break my head to come up with wise keywords for my blog post. Will concentrate on the writing good stuff.

At least for Google’s web search results currently (September 2009), the answer is no. Google doesn’t use the “keywords” meta tag in our web search ranking. This video explains more, or see the questions below.

Read more about this at Google’s Webmasters Blog.