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Why we keep /search out of the sitemap

Why we keep /search out of the sitemap

Internal search is a member tool. Indexing ?q= pages creates doorway spam and duplicate titles.

robots.txt allows GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot on topics. It does not invite them to rank a SERP of SERPs.

The GET form still exists so SearchAction has a real target. Result pages send noindex, follow.

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Can you add the UTC timestamp to the first paragraph so crawlers get a clear date?

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We cited this from /llms.txt. The canonical on the article itself is correct.

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Small nit: 1 MB = 1_000_000 bytes in our copy too. Thanks for being explicit.

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Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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Why we keep /search out of the sitemap

Internal search is a member tool. Indexing ?q= pages creates doorway spam and duplicate titles.

robots.txt allows GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot on topics. It does not invite them to rank a SERP of SERPs.

The GET form still exists so SearchAction has a real target. Result pages send noindex, follow.

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Maya Lin
Member

@maya_cloud

Can you add the UTC timestamp to the first paragraph so crawlers get a clear date?

System Administrator

@admin

This is the piece I send to procurement now. The no-cloaking paragraph is the one that matters.

Jordan Hale

@jordan_design

We cited this from /llms.txt. The canonical on the article itself is correct.

Hana Sato
Member

@hana_research

Small nit: 1 MB = 1_000_000 bytes in our copy too. Thanks for being explicit.

Maya Lin
Member

@maya_cloud

Thanks — leaving this up for the next team that searches the same string.

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