Gary Illyes @goog said this was happening Q1 this year, and like others mentioned lots of other direct&#x2F;indirect signals have pointed this way.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchengineland.com&#x2F;google-may-discontinue-ajax-crawlable-guidelines-216119" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchengineland.com&#x2F;google-may-discontinue-ajax-craw...</a>
March 5th: Gary said you may see a blog post at the Google Webmaster Blog as soon as next week announcing the decommissioning of these guidelines.<p>Pure speculation but interesting... The timing may have something to do with Wix, a Google Domains partner, who is having difficulty with their customer sites being indexed. The support thread shows a lot of talk around &quot;we are following Google&#x27;s Ajax guidelines so this must be a problem with Google&quot;. John Mueller is active in that thread so it&#x27;s not out of the realm of possibility someone was asked to make a stronger public statement. 
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchengineland.com&#x2F;google-working-on-fixing-problem-with-wix-web-sites-not-showing-up-in-search-results-233310" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searchengineland.com&#x2F;google-working-on-fixing-problem...</a>