entity/Q64 was indexed in Google, should it have been?
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	Jul 4 2019, 1:29 AM

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While looking around on Twitter I saw people talking about indexing of Wikidata entities on Google searches.

When searching for Q64, part way down the results we see a /entity/ page rather than a /wiki/ page.

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This should probably not happen?

Twitter thread was https://twitter.com/neumarcx/status/1134189938772185089?s=19

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Mentioned In: T273113: Wikidata pages don't seem to show up on Google and Bing Search results

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Addshore created this task.Jul 4 2019, 1:29 AM

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@Denny @DanBri care to chime in?

From the quickest of looks (and totally unofficial w.r.t. my employer, of course): I don't see the string "entity" in https://www.wikidata.org/robots.txt so it may not be excluded there

Addshore triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 30 2019, 1:53 PM

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Addshore renamed this task from Review robots.txt for Wikidata in light of entity/Q64 being indexed to entity/Q64 was indexed in Google, should it have been?.Jan 22 2021, 11:52 PM

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DVrandecic mentioned this in T273113: Wikidata pages don't seem to show up on Google and Bing Search results.Jan 27 2021, 9:05 PM

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