> It is obvious that the next FTP related headline we see from Google is when (not, if) they drop FTP links from all Google search results. There's no point them listing FTP urls in the results if their own browser can't connect to them.

Why would it? Seems like the relevant model is file types the browser can't open, and there are lots of search results for those?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en

Lots of worry in this thread from people who apparently don't use ftp enough to know that your OS will already open ftp links for you.

It's also a shame that the actual technical discussions are like half a page down.