<story><title>Slack&apos;s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/slacks-private-github-code-repositories-stolen-over-holidays/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r4vik</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s totally plausible. and best practice.&lt;p&gt;If you have a localised blog for multiple regions you will probably have your main blog set up to be indexed and your regional blogs set up to be no-indexed so that Google isn&amp;#x27;t indexing the same stuff twice.</text></item><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&amp;gt; marked with &amp;#x27;noindex&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;How do they even provide a plausible excuse for this? very bad look.</text></item><item><author>openplatypus</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the most interesting in this whole write-up is this:
&amp;gt; Security update hidden from search engines&lt;p&gt;Slack is selectively and deliberately limiting public access (discoverability) to the security breach announcements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>h1fra</author><text>Not best practice at all. Multi-language blog posts should be handled via canonical or rel=”alternate” (own google recommendation)</text></comment>
<story><title>Slack&apos;s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/slacks-private-github-code-repositories-stolen-over-holidays/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>r4vik</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s totally plausible. and best practice.&lt;p&gt;If you have a localised blog for multiple regions you will probably have your main blog set up to be indexed and your regional blogs set up to be no-indexed so that Google isn&amp;#x27;t indexing the same stuff twice.</text></item><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&amp;gt; marked with &amp;#x27;noindex&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;How do they even provide a plausible excuse for this? very bad look.</text></item><item><author>openplatypus</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the most interesting in this whole write-up is this:
&amp;gt; Security update hidden from search engines&lt;p&gt;Slack is selectively and deliberately limiting public access (discoverability) to the security breach announcements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weird-eye-issue</author><text>No that&amp;#x27;s not best practice. You think only English should be indexed in Google?</text></comment>