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Today we updated most of our testing tools so they are using the evergreen Chromium renderer. This affects our testing tools like the mobile-friendly test or the URL inspection tool in Search Console. In this post we look into what this means and what went into making this update happen. The evergreen Chromium renderer At Google […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Each day, Google usually releases one or more changes designed to improve our search results. Most aren’t noticeable but help us incrementally continue to improve. Sometimes, an update may be more noticeable. We aim to confirm such updates when we feel there is actionable information that webmasters, content producers or others might take in relation […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Each day, Google usually releases one or more changes designed to improve our search results. Most aren’t noticeable but help us incrementally continue to improve. Sometimes, an update may be more noticeable. We aim to confirm such updates when we feel there is actionable information that webmasters, content producers or others might take in relation […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Google Images has made a series of changes to help people explore, learn and do more through visual search. An important element of visual search is the ability for users to scan many ideas before coming to a decision, whether it’s purchasing a product, learning more about a stylish room, or finding instructions for a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Yesterday we announced that we’re open-sourcing Google’s production robots.txt parser. It was an exciting moment that paves the road for potential Search open sourcing projects in the future! Feedback is helpful, and we’re eagerly collecting questions from developers and webmasters alike. One question stood out, which we’ll address in this post:Why isn’t a code handler […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →For 25 years, the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) was only a de-facto standard. This had frustrating implications sometimes. On one hand, for webmasters, it meant uncertainty in corner cases, like when their text editor included BOM characters in their robots.txt files. On the other hand, for crawler and tool developers, it also brought uncertainty; for […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →For 25 years, the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has been one of the most basic and critical components of the web. It allows website owners to exclude automated clients, for example web crawlers, from accessing their sites – either partially or completely.In 1994, Martijn Koster (a webmaster himself) created the initial standard after crawlers were […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As we progress with the migration to the new Search Console experience, we will be saying farewell to one of our settings: preferred domain. It’s common for a website to have the same content on multiple URLs. For example, it might have the same content on http://example.com/ as on https://www.example.com/index.html. To make things easier, when […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Over the years we attended hundreds of conferences, we spoke to thousands of webmasters, and recorded hundreds of hours of videos to help web creators find information about how to perform better in Google Search results. Now we’d like to go further: help those who aren’t able to travel internationally and access the same information. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →We invited members of the SEO and web developer community to join us for a new video series called “SEO mythbusting”. In this series, we discuss various topics around SEO from a developer’s perspective, how we can work to make the “SEO black box” more transparent, and what technical SEO might look like as the […]
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