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Google ignores the meta robots noindex tag
Filed in archive Using Search Engines by noel on June 20, 2006
Google ignores the meta robots noindex tag
Webmasters are seeing a serious bug in Google right now. Google's index has been flooded with a high number of supplemental pages with the "noindex" tag.

When a web page has a

< meta name="robots" content="noindex" >

That web page should not appear in the search engine results page. The "noindex' is like an instruction of the webmaster to any search engine for them NOT to index it. However, it seems that google is ignoring this and there were lots of pages indexed even if it has that "noindex" tag.

Some say its a copyright issue. If this goes on, I bet somebody will think about charging google with a copyright infringement and take them to court.

[continue reading at webmasterworld]

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