ref: http://www.akamarketing.com/google-ranking-tips.html
States that google puts search weight on the page title and the first 100kb of text found on the page, more so that description and keywords.
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.."Google gives a lot of "weight" to the title tag when searching for keywords. It
is therefore vital to make sure your most important keywords or keyphrases
appear within this tag. It seems to work best if you've other words in your
title tag too after your keywords, but try to remain under 35-40 characters."...
..and ..
..."I imagine many of you know this already but Google does not use meta tags
such as the keywords meta tag or the description meta tag. This is because the
text within these tags can't be seen by visitors to a website. Therefore Google
feels these tags will be abused by webmasters placing lots of unrelated words in
them in order to get more visitors.
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