Prevent search pages from showing up in the results of searches. #15081
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Search result pages contain injectable content. Bad actors can create false search results by asking Google to search on search-result URLs. These pages then show up in search results.
This is a short-term fix for the problem, that inhibits such pages from appearing onscreen. It does not change the paging counts, and a longer term fix will be needed.
Here is an example of a page where all the results have been inhibited, but the page-count still shows up.
Ideally, we need administrator access to the Google Programmatic Search Console, so we can inhibit these pages by URL on the server-side.
I will continue to modify the current method so that it has fewer artifacts.