From c2a53bbf6114c5e4d4db6c7743c83a1ad8d3dfd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amit Portnoy <1131991+amitport@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 14:11:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(aio): remove additional 'googlebot' reference (#23249)

according to https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag
googlebot is only used as a google specific override of 'robots'- there's no need for override in this case

PR Close #23249
---
 aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts | 2 --
 aio/src/index.html                                    | 2 --
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts b/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
index f9766085dc..26a4513c99 100644
--- a/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
+++ b/aio/src/app/layout/doc-viewer/doc-viewer.component.ts
@@ -155,10 +155,8 @@ export class DocViewerComponent implements OnDestroy {
    */
   private setNoIndex(val: boolean) {
     if (val) {
-      this.metaService.addTag({ name: 'googlebot', content: 'noindex' });
       this.metaService.addTag({ name: 'robots', content: 'noindex' });
     } else {
-      this.metaService.removeTag('name="googlebot"');
       this.metaService.removeTag('name="robots"');
     }
   }
diff --git a/aio/src/index.html b/aio/src/index.html
index 38d839ab8d..1af0254c74 100644
--- a/aio/src/index.html
+++ b/aio/src/index.html
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
 
   <script>
     // Dynamically, pre-emptively, add `noindex`, which will be removed when the doc is ready and valid
-    var tag = document.createElement('meta'); tag.name = 'googlebot'; tag.content = 'noindex';
-    document.head.appendChild(tag);
     tag = document.createElement('meta'); tag.name = 'robots'; tag.content = 'noindex';
     document.head.appendChild(tag);
   </script>