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Unfortunately there is no way of guaranteeing that Google will always use your META Description, however there are steps that can be taken to help influence Google when it populates the description for search terms. Dr Pete wrote a great in depth post on this topic here - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description Hope this helps!

Zac, Thanks for the detailed response. While I haven't yet fully analyzed what you have asked us to do, few points, 1. We are using "mobi" instead of "m.", so the two domains are totally distinct. Is this a bad strategy. 2. The headers in the web and mobile version have a meta tag to point to the other version of the article (link media=handheld, link media=screen) 3. Which SEOmoz tools do we need to use to compare the two pages (we are new to seomoz) 4. One concern we have: Google quickly crawls our mobi site but not our web version of the article. We don't see any offending warnings on Google webmaster tools 5. We will do the xhtml thingy today regards Mahesh

We have already done that in  Webmaster tools but there is no change in the indexing rate. We would like to know if the hosting change from US to India is affecting us and if yes is there a way to fix it.