Is Google doing away with use of the meta description?

Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from users.

Quentin from Vancouver asks:

"In the search results, Google will often display a snippet appropriate to the specific search query - often disregarding the meta description. Is Google doing away with meta description use like they did with meta keywords?"

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