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		zone411 on Feb 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bard and new AI features in Search If you view the source of any Wikipedia page, they purposefully include "nofollow" tags, so Google ignores these links!

flakeoil on Feb 8, 2023 [–]

"nofollow" or not, it does not mean that search engines do not take that into account. They maybe don't scan the linked site there and then, but I would be surprised if they did not take note of that someone linked to it.

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