Seems like the misleading description is from the article, not Google. After following the links I got to this tweet that agrees with your theory. They're tryin

Seems like the misleading description is from the article, not Google. After following the links I got to this tweet that agrees with your theory. They're trying to detect if the subdomaon content is independent of the main site. https://mobile.twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1161725709926182912 https://mobile.twitter.com/googlewmc/status/1161725709926182...