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This post is for all those admins out there in the trenches that have to deal with Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2 and so on.  The othe
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Susan: Use the Google Chrome browser to visit the Chrome Web Store. Download and install a browser extension known as “Search the Current Site“.  Use the Chrome browser to visit the URL listed in your post.  Activate the browser extension and use it to search the site.  Worked for me.  Hope this helps.

Best regards, Laptop Boy

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And for Edge?  Microsoft’s own browser on their own platform, got any suggestions?

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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The concerning part of the news was/is that this documentation has been (as I understand it) flagged to not be searchable by Google or Bing.

Coincidence Server 2019 is about to “Hit the tiles” in the very near future? or a mere oversight?

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Take this for what it is, yet another act of hostility towards users.

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Cybertooth

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I would say that probably various links in that section are pointing at wrong info

Example
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-7/ee681737%28v%3dws.10%29

•Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode Setup and Installation Guide >> opens https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14223/windows-xp-end-of-support

•Install and use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 >> opens https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/products/windows?os=windows-7

Given this ( I didn’t exactly open a lot of test pages… I opened those 2 as first and second test, and both went bad… either I’m very unlucky or my test luck hit again ), I would say all the info is potentially at risk

EDIT
The links in the left frame are apparently reliable ( still referring being on the example page )

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What a surprise DuckDuckGo & Bing will still find a randomly picked test page!

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The page itself

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/

is indexed by Google. The last Google cached version of this page is dated Mar 24, 2018 13:52:22 GMT. The metadata for the above URL contains

meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”INDEX,NOFOLLOW” which means to index the page, yet not to follow any links within the page. I see the same for all of the linked pages within the above URL.

There is a robots.txt file for the root URL, docs.microsoft.com or

https://docs.microsoft.com/robots.txt

The contents of this robots.txt file is:

# docs.microsoft.com
# 2:14 PM 6/1/2016

User-agent: *

Sitemap: https://docs.microsoft.com/_sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml

Google is apparently using the above robots.txt file to index everything under docs.microsoft.com since I can’t find any other robots.txt files for any sub-page under docs.microsoft.com. The upshot is that it appears that Google is ignoring the NOFOLLOW metatag since Google is using the robots.txt file for docs.microsoft.com?

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