Hash tag

[CHECOM]

We are using the hash tag on our redesign for faceted search. So, for example it will look like this www.example.com#fun123. I was looking into how i could exclude my faceted search from my robots.txt, but i was recently told I wouldnt need to do this since Googlebot doesnt index the hash tags or anything after it anyway.  All of the articles I've read online do not give me a straight answer. Has google answered this one for certain?

Thanks!

[TakeshiYoung]

Google almost never indexes hashtags, since they generally point to content on the same page. Typically, Google will just strip out the hashtag when evaluating the link.

However, I have seen with Wikipedia that Google will sometimes show hashtags as sitelinks. Wikipedia is the only site that I know of that they do this for.

Long story short, it should be fine to leave in the hashtags and Google should just ignore them.