# Fact or myth? (exercise A1.4)

For each statement, choose "Fact" or "Myth". All statements are about Google Search, as described by Google in its own documentation (November 2026).

1. Google uses the `keywords` meta tag to rank pages.
2. robots.txt is not a way to keep a page out of Google's search results.
3. A page needs at least 1,000 words to be able to rank in Google.
4. Buying ads from Google gets you a better position in the regular (organic) results.
5. Most Googlebot requests come from the smartphone version of the crawler.
6. E-E-A-T is a specific ranking factor with its own score per site.
7. Duplicate content on your own site (for example, the same page with and without `www`) results in a manual action.
8. A canonical reference is a strong signal, but Google may still choose a different URL as the canonical version.
9. To appear as a source in Google's AI Overviews, there are no additional technical requirements beyond the regular requirements of Google Search.
10. Not every page that Google fetches and processes is also included in the index.