diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/ResponseHeader.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/ResponseHeader.java
index 92f4fd84b..7c1b3924c 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/ResponseHeader.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/ResponseHeader.java
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ public class ResponseHeader extends HeaderFramework {
         if (x_robots_tag.isEmpty()) {
             x_robots_tag = this.get(HeaderFramework.X_ROBOTS, "");
         }
-        return x_robots_tag;
+        return x_robots_tag.toLowerCase();
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/Document.java b/source/net/yacy/document/Document.java
index 040227428..fe3a1b0c2 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/Document.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/Document.java
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public class Document {
     private MultiProtocolURL favicon;
     private boolean resorted;
     private final Set<String> languages;
-    private final boolean indexingDenied;
+    private boolean indexingDenied;
     private final double lon, lat;
     private final Object parserObject; // the source object that was used to create the Document
     private final Map<String, Set<String>> generic_facets; // a map from vocabulary names to the set of tags for that vocabulary which apply for this document
@@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ dc_rights
         return this.indexingDenied;
     }
 
+    public void setIndexingDenied(boolean indexingDenied) {
+        this.indexingDenied = indexingDenied;
+    }
+
     public void setDepth(int depth) {
         this.crawldepth = depth;
     }
@@ -819,6 +823,7 @@ dc_rights
         final LinkedHashMap<AnchorURL, ImageEntry> images = new LinkedHashMap<AnchorURL, ImageEntry>();
         final Set<String> languages = new HashSet<String>();
         double lon = 0.0d, lat = 0.0d;
+        boolean indexingDenied = false;
         Date date = new Date();
         String charset = null;
 
@@ -867,6 +872,8 @@ dc_rights
             
             if (doc.getDepth() < mindepth) mindepth = doc.getDepth();
             if (doc.dc_language() != null) languages.add(doc.dc_language());
+            
+            indexingDenied |= doc.indexingDenied;
         }
 
         // clean up parser data
@@ -898,7 +905,7 @@ dc_rights
                 anchors,
                 rss,
                 images,
-                false,
+                indexingDenied,
                 date);
         newDoc.setDepth(mindepth);
         return newDoc;
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java b/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
index ca15d13fb..c25cde6d6 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
@@ -355,7 +355,14 @@ public final class LoaderDispatcher {
         if (response.getContent() == null || response.getResponseHeader() == null) throw new IOException("no Content available for url " + url);
 
         // parse resource
-        return response.parse();
+        Document[] documents = response.parse();
+
+        String x_robots_tag = response.getResponseHeader().getXRobotsTag();
+        if (x_robots_tag.indexOf("noindex",0) >= 0) {
+            for (Document d: documents) d.setIndexingDenied(true);
+        }
+        
+        return documents;
     }
 
     public Document loadDocument(final DigestURL location, final CacheStrategy cachePolicy, BlacklistType blacklistType, final ClientIdentification.Agent agent) throws IOException {
@@ -371,7 +378,12 @@ public final class LoaderDispatcher {
         // parse resource
         try {
             Document[] documents = response.parse();
-            return Document.mergeDocuments(location, response.getMimeType(), documents);
+            Document merged = Document.mergeDocuments(location, response.getMimeType(), documents);
+            
+            String x_robots_tag = response.getResponseHeader().getXRobotsTag();
+            if (x_robots_tag.indexOf("noindex",0) >= 0) merged.setIndexingDenied(true);
+            
+            return merged;
         } catch(final Parser.Failure e) {
             throw new IOException(e.getMessage());
         }
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/schema/CollectionConfiguration.java b/source/net/yacy/search/schema/CollectionConfiguration.java
index 5dba2e9d6..f000d20da 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/schema/CollectionConfiguration.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/schema/CollectionConfiguration.java
@@ -570,15 +570,8 @@ public class CollectionConfiguration extends SchemaConfiguration implements Seri
                 if (robots_meta.indexOf("noindex",0) >= 0) b += 8;  // set bit 3
                 if (robots_meta.indexOf("nofollow",0) >= 0) b += 16; // set bit 4
             }
-            String x_robots_tag = "";
-            if (responseHeader != null) {
-                x_robots_tag = responseHeader.get(HeaderFramework.X_ROBOTS_TAG, "");
-                if (x_robots_tag.isEmpty()) {
-                    x_robots_tag = responseHeader.get(HeaderFramework.X_ROBOTS, "");
-                }
-            }
+            String x_robots_tag = responseHeader.getXRobotsTag();
             if (!x_robots_tag.isEmpty()) {
-                x_robots_tag = x_robots_tag.toLowerCase();
                 // this tag may have values: all, noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, notranslate, noimageindex, unavailable_after, none; see https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag?hl=de
                 if (x_robots_tag.indexOf("all",0) >= 0) b += 1<<8;                // set bit 8
                 if (x_robots_tag.indexOf("noindex",0) >= 0||x_robots_tag.indexOf("none",0) >= 0) b += 1<<9;   // set bit 9