With all the debate around the changes to how Google displays snippets in the search results in May, Google may do away with the meta descriptions section in the HTML improvements area in the Google Search Console.

Danny Sullivan of Google said on Twitter in response to why Google shows these in Search Console if they don’t want SEOs or webmasters to focus on them:

Yes, he said out right “they will not migrate to the new Search Console” although right before he said that, John Mueller of Google said they might not be migrated to the new Search Console.

Here is the Twitter stream:

Why also remove the duplicate meta descriptions from that report? Well, very recently Google said that having duplicate meta descriptions doesn’t break your site.

So it looks like it might all go away – is that something you want or do not want?

Forum discussion at Twitter.