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David August

@taylorlorenz not sure this is what may be playing a role, but WaPo’s robots.txt file (one way webmasters can request robots handle things on their domain) has this:

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

That is requesting any machine that makes a request with the user-agent set to “Google-Extended” not access (and therefore not index) anything at all on that domain.

Odd thing to have in a robots.txt file, but it is there at washingtonpost.com/robots.txt