The dumbest part is that we’d known about this for a long time and one day someone discovered we’d implemented a feature toggle to remove those URLs and then it just never got turned on, despite being announced that it had.
They were meant to be interactive URLs on search pages. Someone implemented them I think trying to allow A11y to work but the bots were slamming us. We also weren’t doing canonical URLs right in the destination page so they got searched again every scan cycle. So at least three dumb things were going on, but the sorts of mistakes that normal people could make.
They were meant to be interactive URLs on search pages. Someone implemented them I think trying to allow A11y to work but the bots were slamming us. We also weren’t doing canonical URLs right in the destination page so they got searched again every scan cycle. So at least three dumb things were going on, but the sorts of mistakes that normal people could make.