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Google Search has added to its file types indexable by Google help document that it can now index Comma-Separated Values (.csv) files. I confirmed with John Mueller of Google that this is not just a help document update but a new update to Google Search in what it can index.
More details. I spotted the update this morning to the help document and wondered initially if this is new outside of just an update to a help document for clarification purposes. I reached out to John Mueller who confirmed with me on Twitter that this is newly added functionally to Google Search:
New new, not just new doc :).
— John is updating his unnamed profile name #ok (@JohnMu) August 25, 2023
The document change. Here is the new line added to the help document:
More changes. The March copy of that help page did not have CSV listed as a file type but it also didn’t have these two sections:
Various video formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, M2V, M3U, M3U8, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGV, QVT, RAM, RM, VOB, WebM, WMV, and XAP Various image formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG
I am pretty sure Google was able to index those image formats and most, if not all, of those video formats. So that is probably just a clarification in those sections. But the CSV format is new in terms of actual functionality.
Why we care. If you have CSV files
Read more here: https://searchengineland.com/google-search-can-now-index-csv-files-431184