[marginalia_nu]

Not entirely unlikely this is just a bug on Google's end.

It's fairly common for there to be a very long and circuitous route between cause and effect in search, so a bug like this can sometimes be difficult to identify until people start making blog posts about it.

[efilife]

It seems that this is not happening and even the guy who wrote the article mentions it:

> I don't have a robots.txt right now. It hasn't been there in a long time. Google still shows two results when I search for files on my site though:

The source that he links to is another indian spam channel we've seen a thousand times on YouTube

[xnx]

It does seem unlikely that Google would have a big in basic behavior of its crawler after ~27 years.