In recent updates, Google has spoken about integrating large language models (LLMs) with search functionalities, emphasizing the potential of in-context learning. Additionally, Google Business Profiles are sending out verification failure notices that include specific reasons for failures. The Merchant Center now features AI-generated summaries to improve product representations. Google is also experimenting with new search result snippet designs, including how content is presented across paginated results, indicating ongoing refinement in the user search experience.
Pages that are properly blocked by robots.txt would not get crawled, so any meta tag on them would not matter. I suspect either the robots.txt changed / isn't accessible, or the page is not properly blocked there.
Google is getting quite pushy about re-linking those unlinked services. I've said from Day 1 that the impact of unlinking has been understated, and I still have so many unanswered questions.
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