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Google quietly updated their Google Search Central documentation to note that they are now indexing .csv files.
This opens up a new way to get crawled or if a publisher doesn’t want their .csv files crawled, it may mean updating robots.txt to exclude those files.
Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
Comma-separated values (CSV) files are text files that save data in a tabular format that can be displayed as a spreadsheet.
CSV files contain data in plain text, which means that the CSV files do not contain style elements like fonts nor does it contain images or active links.
They are useful for doing things like uploading a list of URLs for crawling to software like Screaming Frog.
But they are also useful for organizing data in a spreadsheet.
CSV File Indexing Is New
Google’s ability to index CSV files is a new functionality because a “filetype” search on Google for CSV files does not currently return CSV files.
Searches like the following currently do not return CSV files:
- filetype:csv site:.gov
- filetype:csv site:.edu
- filetype:csv site:.com
Google Has Already Indirectly Used CSV Files
Something curious about the indexing of CSV files by Google is that Google’s Dataset search appearance already used CSV files but apparently only when described with structured data.
Dataset structured data documentation on...
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