I want to prevent google from using some text on a webpage as a snippet.

If I use the code below to prevent google from displaying snippets for my page what does it display? No description at all or my meta tag description? I read somewhere that it doesn't display your meta description.

   <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOSNIPPET">

I guess I'll have to think of something else. I was hoping not to have to add another occurrence of the keyword in a earlier sentence, or remove it, or put it in my meta description, but I guess that's the only option. Or is there something else I can do that will prevent some text on a page from being used in a snippet, while also being indexed.

That prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page. This means your search results will show only a title and no description at all.

I suggest just making unique detailed meta tag descriptions for each page, Google will use them if you provide them.

Yeah if the search terms are in the meta description, otherwise snippets will still be used. I don't know if it would combine the two or only use snippets though. Do you know?

Also:
I know the snippet is used from the first occurrence of the term searched, but does it only display the sentence it is found in, or neighboring sentences as well?

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-...earch-snippet/

Thanks. I can just change my text. I had a joke that wouldn't have helped bring in traffic if it showed up as a snippet if it didn't show the next sentence along with it so people would know I was joking, but I'll just change it; it's not a big deal.