[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51511: Introduce Robots API and Media Search Engine Visibility setting

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#51511: Introduce Robots API and Media Search Engine Visibility setting
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 Reporter:  flixos90                             |       Owner:  flixos90
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
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Component:  General                              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests needs-      |     Focuses:
  copy-review                                    |
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Comment (by helen):

 I don't have a fully formed opinion about the robots API side of things
 but as for media use in search engines, I am not convinced of the utility
 of turning this on for the majority of sites. It's making a lot of
 assumptions about how people use media and technical implementation/spec
 aside it seems odd to say that this has core importance but not Open Graph
 tags for social media cards. I can see that it is not the same thing from
 an output and standards perspective, but with the added UI for all users
 this is exposing something that is fairly insider and a significant
 portion of our user base see those as similar items, if not the same.

 Another question I have is - why would a user ever want to discourage
 large media usage for search engines? What would the problem be with large
 media that they would want to turn that off?

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