Google Is Now Indexing EPUB Files via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google announced that it is present indexing .epub documents, a format commonly utilized to people books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books successful the hunt index.

EPUB File Format

EPUB is an XML-based eBook publishing format based connected a modular developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, which successful 2016 was subsequently merged with the World Wide Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The extremity of the merger was to bring unneurotic physics publication publishing with the Internet truthful that they would mutually enrich each other.

Google Indexing EBUB Content

The intent of merging e-publishing with the Internet aligns with Google’s determination to scale (and astatine immoderate constituent presumably rank) EPUB content. The lone astonishment should beryllium that it took 8 years to bash so. The changelog notes that EPUB record format was added to Google’s documentation of indexable record types and offers nary different details.

Google’s authoritative changelog offers a substance of information notation:

“Adding epub to indexable record types

What: Added EPUB to the database of indexable record types.

Why: Google Search present supports epub.”

Does Google Rank EPUB Content?

I did a site:search for EPUB content, noted the rubric of a technological probe astir eating contaminated food successful Lake Ontario (“Consumption of Contaminated Lake Fish and Reproduction”) that was hosted connected the journals.lww.com domain.

I adjacent searched for that papers successful the regular hunt utilizing the nonstop lucifer keyword operation and a saltation of the keyword operation (“Consumption of Contaminated Fish successful Lake Ontario”) and Google didn’t aboveground the EPUB papers but it did aboveground the webpage that contained the download to the EPUB document.

Screenshot Of EPUB Download Page

Google’s authoritative indexable record benignant documentation lone notes that the listed filetypes are indexable. At this clip it’s just to accidental that Google isn’t ranking EPUB documents but Google volition aboveground them with a filetype:epub search.

Read Google’s authoritative documentation:

File types indexable by Google

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