Google launched shared conversations in Google Bard a few week in the past and forgot to make sure engines like google cannot index the outcomes. The robots.txt had(s) nothing in it to dam bard.google.com/share from being listed and since Google Search likes to index issues, it listed these public conversations.
Here’s a screenshot of what I noticed yesterday afternoon (click on to enlarge):
Be aware, this morning when the story went stay, Google is displaying twice as many URLs in its index than it did yesterday.
This was noticed first by Gagan Ghotra and he posted about it on X. I requested Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liason about this, saying Google Search cannot actually be concerned with indexing this and he stated I’m proper.
Sullivan wrote, “Bard permits folks to share chats, in the event that they select. We additionally do not intend for these shared chats to be listed by Google Search. We’re engaged on blocking them from being listed now.”
Listed here are these tweets:
Bard permits folks to share chats, in the event that they select. We additionally do not intend for these shared chats to be listed by Google Search. We’re engaged on blocking them from being listed now.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) September 26, 2023
I think Bard will add this to its robots.txt file to dam it from being crawled by Google Search? Or possibly Google will do one thing totally different to dam these chats from displaying up in Google Search?
The wild factor is that if Google indexes these shared conversations, it could actually alter what Google Search validates as being correct in Bard – keep in mind this?
And yea, a few of these Bard conversations have been chosen as featured snippets by Google Search:
Google Bard dialog rating as snippet 😄
Question – why google will not be indexing my blogger posts quick. https://t.co/LlsejAdVeV pic.twitter.com/B9Kxp9kfh8
— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) September 26, 2023
However John will not be serving to:
Given our trustworthy outcomes coverage, the parents from Search are additionally not going to assist them to determine this out. There’s public documentation on how verification, noindex, robots.txt, and so forth works.
— John, aka “a complete bell cheese” (@JohnMu) September 26, 2023
This kinda goes into it: https://t.co/ol6JSb7GHq — although tbh it has been some time since I listened in.
— John, aka “a complete bell cheese” (@JohnMu) September 26, 2023
Discussion board dialogue at X.
Replace: Later right now, the Bard staff blocked these conversations utilizing robots.txt:
It is blocked now through robots.txt. Be aware, urls can nonetheless be listed when blocked by robots.txt, simply w/out Google crawling the content material. However Google should not floor these usually within the SERPs (however it could actually…) Only a heads up. Additionally, they need to use the removals device for what’s listed: https://t.co/oQM84YvrfU pic.twitter.com/N2kiTMF5Zd
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) September 27, 2023
