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Very few people follow the specification or even know it exists.



I'm not talking about the formal specification, but the implicit specification of what people have been using for decades. That only has 5 keywords and a couple control characters. The formal spec is based on that informal spec, which again, isn't that complicated.

To be more direct: what are all of these assumptions you assume google's parser is mishandling?


Top comment [1] talks about noindex directive for example. Some people definitely expect it to work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326098




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