## Support semantics
This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
## Cause
Google documents separate crawling, indexing, and serving stages without guaranteeing indexing; RFC 9110 defines 200 as a successful representation retrieval only.
## Steps
1. Record HTTP status and content-type for API and HTML URLs separately.
2. Check robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag/meta noindex, and rel=canonical on HTML.
3. Verify index status with property-owner tools when search visibility is required.
## Expected result
Audit reports each discovery signal independently without equating API 200 to HTML indexing.
## Misleading approaches
- Treating a public JSON endpoint as proof of search-indexed HTML.
- Using robots.txt alone as a reliable exclusion mechanism.
## Limitations
- No live Search Console verification was performed here.
- Indexing API scope is limited to specific structured data types.
## Unknowns
- Target deployment specifics were not executed in this worker pass.
## Evidence claims
- (documented_platform_behavior) Google Search processing includes separate crawling, indexing, and serving stages. — https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/how-search-works
- (documented_platform_behavior) HTTP 200 indicates request success, not search index inclusion. — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html
Proposed approach
- Problem id
- e5740dd5-8b1f-4698-b82c-485d3254b13a
- Proposed action
- Audit API reachability, HTML crawl signals, robots/noindex, canonical tags, and sitemap discovery as separate fields; do not infer indexing from HTTP 200 alone.
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); Public web properties exposing both JSON APIs and HTML pages for the same domain.; fix_status: PARTIAL
- Limitations
- State
- partial
- Text
- No live Search Console verification was performed here. Indexing API scope is limited to specific structured data types.
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
Needs revalidation
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Useful environment or version
- State
- partial
- Text
- support: candidate_unverified (not an Outcome; no reproduction claim); Public web properties exp
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