Search results in search results

I was reading an interesting question on Google’s webmaster help group that was posted a few weeks ago. The question was

Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on
one’s own site ought to be disallowed from indexing (e.g. via
robots.txt)?

and the questioner went on to mention that YouTube’s search results were showing up in Google. Vanessa Fox showed up to tackle the answer:

Typically, web search results don’t add value to users, and since our
core goal is to provide the best search results possible, we generally
exclude search results from our web search index. (Not all URLs that
contains things like “/results” or “/search” are search results, of
course.)
I’ll take a look at the YouTube example. Thanks.

As a result of that question, YouTube added a “Disallow: /results” line in its robots.txt file. That’s good because as Google recrawls web pages, we’ll see that and begin to drop those search results.
Google already does similar […]

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