Currently, as of 12/26/24, Roblox’s engine documentation site is no longer indexed by google. This issue started occurring around 2-3 weeks ago.
Steps to reproduce:
Search “roblox api basepart” on google. Observe the doc site is nowhere to be seen in the search results.
Search “roblox creator docs tween” on google. Observe that again, there are no results.
Search “roblox api model streamingmode” on google. Observe there are no results.
Expected behavior
It is expected that the creator docs site would be indexed by google as it has been until recently. Previously, if I searched something like “roblox api model streamingmode”, the model class page would be the first search result. Now, the creator docs site does not show up in search results at all! I only get devforum results.
The only sort of solution i’ve found so far is to explicitly put the word documentation in whatever you are searching for and it comes up with properties but never the item itself for example i was searching for proximityprompt documentation but it only comes up with proximityprompt.style if you search ‘roblox proximityprompt documentation’
I had a look at the CFrames page and it has the noindex tag, indicating that for whatever reason Roblox has explicitly marked the docs to not show up on search. I can’t imagine this is intentional, but either way pls undo!
This has presumably either gotten worse or has only propogated to me as of recently; I can’t find any documentation pages (except for ProximityPrompt.Style, as mentioned above) by using normal search keywords. It has actually become easier to find the page via community documentation alternatives.
I usually use site:create.roblox.com/docs to search within the documentation because it is faster and yields better results than the documentation’s search tools.
It seems as every single page is not being indexed at all. No idea as to why.
Came here to report the same issue. I wanted to know more about bones and how I can interact with them through scripts among other things, and it wasn’t fun to find.
Thankfully, there seems to be a GitHub site that mirrors the documentation, is indexed, and links to the actual doc’s page. It tends to appear at the top of the search results, and it just works.
I’d much rather have the actual documentation be easy to find, but until then, I guess we can have this as a bandaid. Hope it helps someone.
Hi all, I replied to the other thread, but sharing here, too:
Thanks for reporting and for your patience. We’re able to reproduce. This is a bug, not an intended behavior, and we should have a fix out early next week.
Cross-posting in both threads: Hey all, this should be resolved, but results on the major search engines are (as expected) taking a bit of time to catch up. Search is a big area of emphasis for the docs in 2025, so please let us know if you spot any related issues. Thanks again!
