when i visit some websites the text appears to be gray and small on some parts of that site, where the rest of the text looks okay. anyone please?

These are Metatags I believe - someone more web savvy can correct me - designed to produce more hits from search engines.

anyone else know why this might be?

All it is, is to "seed" for the search engines, they LOVE html so people thing that if they put grey and small text on their site its going to get a better position in the search engines!!, shh dont tell them but it DONT work, if anything the search engines are becoming so sophisticated now, it actually harms them
I have been doing SEO for 5 years and it still constantly amazes me what people try to get away with :loopy: