meta classification (and possible spam?)

[french dread]

What is the original use of the meta classification tag?

Making a study on debt collection websites, rankings I found that the website fair-debt-collection.com had an uncommon use of the meta tag:

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<META NAME="classification"
CONTENT="http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Fair+Debt+Collection+Practices+Act"><META
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
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Is this spam in your opinion? if yes how is the technique workin? PR trickery?

this website is ranked 10 on google for "debt collection"

[Alan Perkins]

No these tags aren't spam per se.

The meta classification tag will do no good at all.

The meta robots tag stops Google showing a cached version of the page. This can indicate cloaking...whatever that means. ;)