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It may be counterproductive but in a way those publishers always held the rights to their own work. Consequently if they want to prevent Google from showing sni
by timwaagh 7y ago
It may be counterproductive but in a way those publishers always held the rights to their own work. Consequently if they want to prevent Google from showing snippets they should be able to. But maybe that should be opt out, rather than opt in. I expect most of them to request Google to use snippets again before very long in any case.
- kozhevnikov 7y agoIt should be a simple robots.txt setting (i.e. indexed but without snippets) available to any publisher and content creator in any country.
- dahauns 7y agoBut there already is? That's exactly what the nosnippet meta-tag is for.
- zmix 7y agoIt is already. And in addition to that, since 'robots.txt' is being considered to broad and too 'out of time', Google offers meta tags, that their bot evaluates. They did this long time before the EU direction.
- realusername 7y agoThey already can, they just leave the meta tags with an empty string and nothing will show up.
- zmix 7y ago> Consequently if they want to prevent Google from showing snippets they should be able to. They were! From https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en <meta name="googlebot" content="..., ..." /> These meta tags control the behavior of search engine crawling and indexing. nosnippet - Don't show a text snippet or video preview from being shown in the search results. For video, a static image will be shown instead, if possible. Example: <meta name="robots" content="nosnippet"> max-snippet:[number] - Limit the text snippet length for this page to [number] characters; specify 0 for no snippet or -1 to allow any snippet length.