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Site Google site: search has metashows description, but page source does not?has no meta-description

I found a webpage without a meta descriptionmeta-description in the page source but when I did a Site:site: search, the webpage had a meta description.

How does this play into SEO?

Was the description generated based on a default meta description possible? If the meta descriptionmeta-description isn't defined in the source under the meta data but there is still one on a Site:site: search does Google penalize that page for not having a defined meta descriptionmeta-description in the source?

This website has 210 webpages and only about 15 of them have meta descriptionsa meta-description in the code but using a meta descriptionmeta-description checker I have found there to be no meta descriptionmeta-description despite one appearing on a Site:site: search.

Of the pages with no meta descriptionmeta-description, they all have the same one that appears on the Site:site: search.

Site: search has meta description, page source does not?

I found a webpage without a meta description in the page source but when I did a Site: search the webpage had a meta description.

How does this play into SEO?

Was the description generated based on a default meta description possible? If the meta description isn't defined in the source under the meta data but there is still one on a Site: search does Google penalize that page for not having a defined meta description in the source?

This website has 210 webpages and only about 15 of them have meta descriptions in the code but using a meta description checker I have found there to be no meta description despite one appearing on a Site: search.

Of the pages with no meta description they all have the same one that appears on the Site: search.

Google site: search shows description, but page source has no meta-description

I found a webpage without a meta-description in the page source but when I did a site: search, the webpage had a description.

How does this play into SEO?

Was the description generated based on a default description possible? If the meta-description isn't defined in the source under the meta data but there is still one on a site: search does Google penalize that page for not having a defined meta-description in the source?

This website has 210 webpages and only about 15 of them have a meta-description in the code but using a meta-description checker I have found there to be no meta-description despite one appearing on a site: search.

Of the pages with no meta-description, they all have the same one that appears on the site: search.

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Site: search has meta description, page source does not?

I found a webpage without a meta description in the page source but when I did a Site: search the webpage had a meta description.

How does this play into SEO?

Was the description generated based on a default meta description possible? If the meta description isn't defined in the source under the meta data but there is still one on a Site: search does Google penalize that page for not having a defined meta description in the source?

This website has 210 webpages and only about 15 of them have meta descriptions in the code but using a meta description checker I have found there to be no meta description despite one appearing on a Site: search.

Of the pages with no meta description they all have the same one that appears on the Site: search.