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Poster:	TL7	Date:	Sep 12, 2019 4:24am
Forum:	movies	Subject:	Why are items being marked as “noindex”?

Hello, again.

I have noticed that some items such as YouTube re-uploads are being marked as “noindex”, which means that search engines and the Internet Archive's own search feature will be unable to find those items.

Why are videos being marked as “noindex”?

I am not opposing it, I am just asking why.

The archival would be more purposeful if people could actually find the archived contents.

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Poster:	VADemon	Date:	Aug 26, 2022 9:54am
Forum:	movies	Subject:	Re: Why are items being marked as “noindex”?

I will take the liberty to quote Gray:

> Uploaded youtube videos should have noindex asserted so they will not be in the search engine. We would appreciate if you could set noindex=true at time of upload.

I guess they've had enough problems with that, this seems to be a recent (2018-2019) change. However, if you use the proper item identifier, "youtube-VIDEOIDHERE" then you'll be able to access the video if you still know the original link / video ID.
This post was modified by VADemon on 2022-08-26 16:54:07
This post was modified by VADemon on 2022-08-26 16:54:31