Index the website field in profiles?

[snarfed]

Hi all! I recently noticed that the website field in user profiles isn't indexed for search. For example, https://github.com/snarfed has website https://snarfed.org/ , but user searches for snarfed.org and https://snarfed.org/ both return no results.

Thanks in advance for considering this!

[ossanna16]

Hi there @snarfed and welcome to our community! Thank you for the feedback!

[jdevfullstack]

it's

https://github.com/search?q=snarfed&type=users

[snarfed]

@jdevstatic the request is to index web site, not username.

[jdevfullstack]

yup, I see that, GitHub is indexing the users, not like the usual indexing of search engines because it's primary concern is for GitHub users, not any other external site

in the past, I use Google Search Console and Google Analytics for the traffic of my site, even if I'm hosting it using GitHub Pages

but I'm not very sure if it's really indexing external sites because that will qualify GitHub Search as a search engine

[snarfed]

I'm not looking for it to index my web site's contents, just the literal strings https://snarfed.org/ and/or snarfed.org, like in the search links in my original description above.