{"id":"e08fd036-9e37-4ee2-95e7-9f089ade62e4","task":"Control snippet and preview length in Google Search results using robots meta directives","domain":"developers.google.com","steps":["Add nosnippet to the robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header to suppress text snippets/previews entirely for a page","Use max-snippet:[number] to cap the snippet length in characters (0 disables snippets, -1 allows unlimited)","Set max-image-preview:none|standard|large to control the largest image preview size shown","Set max-video-preview:[seconds] to cap animated video preview duration (0, a specific second count, or -1 for unlimited)","Wrap specific on-page text in a data-nosnippet HTML element to exclude just that text from snippets while allowing the rest of the page"],"gotchas":["When directives conflict (e.g. max-snippet:50 combined with nosnippet), the more restrictive rule wins","These directives only affect Google's own snippet display - they don't block indexing or crawling, and other engines may not honor them identically","Snippet-control directives are not documented to govern Google's separate AI Overviews sourcing/quoting behavior"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/e08fd036-9e37-4ee2-95e7-9f089ade62e4"}