Google Search has added to its file sorts indexable by Google assist doc that it may well now index Comma-Separated Values (.csv) information. I confirmed with John Mueller of Google that this isn’t only a assist doc replace however a brand new replace to Google Search in what it may well index.
Extra particulars. I noticed the replace this morning to the assistance doc and questioned initially if that is new outdoors of simply an replace to a assist doc for clarification functions. I reached out to John Mueller who confirmed with me on Twitter that that is newly added functionally to Google Search:
The doc change. Right here is the brand new line added to the assistance doc:
Extra modifications. The March copy of that assist web page didn’t have CSV listed as a file kind nevertheless it additionally didn’t have these two sections:
- Numerous video codecs: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, M2V, M3U, M3U8, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGV, QVT, RAM, RM, VOB, WebM, WMV, and XAP
- Numerous picture codecs: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG
I’m fairly certain Google was capable of index these picture codecs and most, if not all, of these video codecs. So that’s in all probability only a clarification in these sections. However the CSV format is new when it comes to precise performance.
Why we care. When you’ve got CSV information out on the internet, Google can now index these information. That implies that Google Search can present CSV information in its search outcomes when related to the question. If you happen to don’t need your CSV information in Google Search, be sure to don’t let Google index them.
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