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#23 .md files and internet search engines
clmarchesanclmarchesan, edited ClosedGeneral

From my vague memories, to index an htm page, a search engine like Google started from the Title tag and then checked whether the body of the page was consistent with the title. It is still so? And for GitHub how does it work?

Regards, Claudio

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ftessierftessier

I don’t know. I believe indexing the internet has evolved to algorithms that I would not even begin to comprehend. 🤓

As a major hub of the world’s source code, I trust GitHub is indexed thoroughly and frequently. My experience has been consistent with that view.

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RedshiftDriftRedshiftDrift, edited

From my vague memories, to index an htm page, a search engine like Google started from the Title tag and then checked whether the body of the page was consistent with the title. It is still so? And for GitHub how does it work?

It does not work like that anymore. Focus on the science and don’t worry, once the cosmology.info URL points to the GitHub webpage, Google will re-index the entire GitHub website with everybody’s pages. The cosmology.info URL is on Google’s search engine list since 2018 (I used Google search console to make sure Google indexes ACG).

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