1204976 - Hello chat links indexed in google index

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Hello (Loop) :: General, defect)

Description

[Muhammad Shahmeer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36 OPR/27.0.1689.76

Steps to reproduce:

I checked the google index for potentially indexed firefox hello links and using this google dork one can easily harvest the hello chat links from the google index

site:hello.firefox.com




Actual results:

Following are some of the links i was able to harvest

https://hello.firefox.com/bwdRgz9GIn8
https://hello.firefox.com/CkADH3zeM8Zs4


Expected results:

This is because there is no meta tag of no-index or an X-Robots-Tag header to prevent the indexing, thus this is being executed in the google search

Comment 1

[Adam Roach [:abr]]

Attachment: Screenshot of Google results for "site:hello.firefox.com"

These all appear to be the result of inbound links to Hello from web pages that we don't control. Note, for example, the rather amusing inclusion of "https://hello.firefox.com/generate", which we can say with a high degree of certainty resulted from Google indexing Bug 1172017.

The only way we could do anything about this would be by somehow controlling the content of every web page on the Internet. That's somewhat outside our control.