The description of the page is displayed in the main content management menu but more importantly it contains the key summary used for searching.

The exact text included in the description is posted to the site as the meta tag for description and the RDF - don´t worry if you don´t know what these mean - basically they are part of the content used and displayed by search engines when categorizing the web site.

The description is also used by the XDe´s internal search to locate pages.