Use of Internet spiders
I know that CET programming is being developed at this time. Are there plans down the road to allow Internet spiders to index the data and make available our research to search engines?
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@NCVAresearch Thank you for your assistance with early release CET. I have brought your question to the engineers' attention for feedback.
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Tree data at FamilySearch is not crawlable by internet indexing engines. Generally a patron needs to login before they can see any tree data. It is held under pretty tight security.
There was an effort some years ago that created thin custom Google searchable ancestor landing pages for a small portion of the most visited deceased in Family Tree, and positioned them separate from the Family Tree to enable crawlers to index them so users could find them on Google Search. You may still find some of these turn up in a Google search, but the crawlers aren't indexing the tree database directly.
There are no current plans at FamilySearch to make the tree databases containing Family Tree nor CETs accessible to search engine crawlers.1 -
@NCVAresearch Please read the comment above from Robert Kehrer. Thank you for your continued testing and feedback of early access CET.
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