Is “noindex” applied to child content?

Question

When you add the noindex class to a div, is all content below it excluded from search crawls? For example, if I had the code below:

<div class="noindex">
   Some Data
   <div> will this be indexed</div>
</div>

Will the second div be indexed?

Answer 1

Accord to this blog entry on msdn blogs, the nested div will not be excluded in SharePoint Search, but also states that it might change.
So my rule is:
- if you don't want it searched then give it the noindex class.
- if you want it searched then place it outside the noindex div.