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That "/*/tree" rule means that search engine crawlers are allowed to hit the README file of a repo but effectively NONE of the other files in it.
Which means that if you keep your project documentation on GitHub in a docs/ folder it won't be indexed!
You need to publish it to a separate site via GitHub Pages, or use https://readthedocs.org/
/*/tree is only for directory listings. File contents will be under a /blob/ path, e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/AUTHORS, and should be, AFAIK, indexable.
(mandatory disclaimer: I'm a GitHub employee, not speaking on behalf of the company)
Would you mind providing details like the search query and link to the page you expect to be found?
To test your hypothesis, I did a basic search for exact matches on "we do not synchronize on the update of the broker node" and Google returned 2 search results in 240ms:
- https://github.com/a0x8o/kafka/blob/master/core/src/main/sca...
- https://jar-download.com/artifacts/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2....
Which contain exactly the source code from GitHub that I was looking for. You'll notice that the first result is actually a0x80's fork of apache/kafka. Google states that some entries very similar to the 2 already displayed were omitted, and I'm able to remove that filter. With that filter removed, I can see the same document indexed from apache/kafka on GitHub.
There's nothing I can do or promise directly, but I can assure you that Google takes the quality of our search results very seriously. If you believe we're not delivering quality results, I strongly encourage you to click that "Send Feedback" link at the bottom of your results so that our teams can act upon your feedback.
Disclosure: I work on Search at Google.
Disclaimer: The words, views, and opinions expressed in this post are my own. They are not representative nor do they represent my employer in any capacity.
I asked about this on the support forum a while ago and never got a satisfactory response: https://github.com/community/community/discussions/20958
> Google states that some entries very similar to the 2 already displayed were omitted, and I'm able to remove that filter.
I've definitely seen that sort of thing before but there is no such link there at the moment -- at least not when searching from my iPhone, whether or not I'm in desktop mode. I just see a large error box that says "It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search" followed by the link to the a0x80 fork.
By the way, the a0x80 result highlights a serious problem with search results: the GitHub URL is strangely modified. Instead of showing the full URL or even a prefix leading up to it Google is selecting parts of the URL, showing "https://github.com > src > transaction" on mobile and "https://github.com > kafka > coordinator > transaction" when I request the desktop site. In neither case is it obvious that the content isn't the canonical source from Apache. I've noticed this middle-out truncation for GH urls before but I'm not sure when it started.