Unlisted extension is searchable on Google

[Blue Host]

I have a private extension meant for a small group of people to use but it's hard for me to track their emails to make the extension private, so I have to publish it as unlisted.  This tells me that only people with a direct link to it can see it, but when I search for the extension name in Google it brings it up.  Should this happen?

Thanks

[PhistucK]

I do not think this should happen (I see a "noindex" directive in the page of unlisted extensions), this is weird.

If you go to link in the Google search results and press Control + U, can you find a "noindex" directive there?

☆PhistucK

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Blue Host <emo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a private extension meant for a small group of people to use but it's hard for me to track their emails to make the extension private, so I have to publish it as unlisted.  This tells me that only people with a direct link to it can see it, but when I search for the extension name in Google it brings it up.  Should this happen?

Thanks

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[Blue Host]

Thanks for the reply.

It turns out that Google is finding and showing the "report" page where you can report a problem.  That page doesn't have a noindex on it.  The URL looks like ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/report/EXTENSION_ID_HERE ).  The actual extension like you said does have noindex.

Also it only finds it in the first page of results if I put my extension name in quotes such as "Extension name". 

Thanks

[PhistucK]

You can search crbug.com for an existing issue and star it. If you cannot find one, file a new issue using the "New issue" link on the same page.

Please, do not add a "+1" or "Me too" or "Confirmed" (or similar) comment. It just wastes the time of Chrome engineers and sends unnecessary e-mails to all of the people who starred the issue.

You can reply with a link to the found or created issue and might get triaged (and fixed) faster.

Thank you.

☆PhistucK

[Blue Host]

Thanks for the help! There were only three results for my search and they didn't pertain to this issue so I created a new one.