Google description of Steam currently shows as "Fuck Epic Games Store"

You may have seen a very unusual message on Google today that describes Steam.

Update: Upon further inspection, it appears that Google's bots crawled user reviews containing the same message and ASCII text. Steam user Rommel's comment on Metro Exodus seems problematic.

Steam displays user reviews under the Steam Labs section of the homepage, so there is a good chance that Rommel's reviews will appear with Metro Exodus, causing this.

You can read the original story below.

ability: Here's what you don't see every day: the official description steam

At the time of writing, typing "Steam store" on Google will return a link to the store in the first result (not an ad) and that weird message in its descripti on below. PC Games N was the first to find the error, and when we tried it, we got the same results.

For some reason, you won't see this if you just type "Steam". When looking for terms related to the Epic Store, there didn't seem to be any counter-information.

The site description and the first few links on Google usually come from the site's code. So assuming that Google's bots didn't mix sources by mistake, the data might originate from Steam's own website.

Someone at Valve felt unusually weird this afternoon, or the site was broken to allow third parties to change metadata in this way. We have contacted Valve to comment.