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Let’s Go. It’s Google I/O 2023

Posted by Jeanine Banks, VP & General Manager, Developer X, and Head of Developer Relations Google I/O is back and you’re invited to join us online May 10! Learn about Google’s latest solutions, products, and technologies for developers, ...

Google Dev Library Letters: 19th Edition

Posted by the Dev Library team In this newsletter, we’re highlighting the best projects developed with Google technologies that have been contributed to the Google Dev Library platform. We hope this will spark some inspiration for your next project! C...

Developer Journey – Women’s History Month: March 2023

Posted by Lyanne Alfaro, DevRel Program Manager, Google Developer Studio In honor of Women’s History Month, it’s our pleasure to feature members across the Women Techmakers ecosystem for March’s Developer Journey profiles. These are community leaders ...

Google Dev Library Letters: 18th Edition

Posted by the Dev Library team In this newsletter, we’re highlighting the best projects developed with Google technologies that have been contributed to the Google Dev Library platform. We hope this will spark some inspiration for your next proje...

Don’t Use 403s Or 404s For Rate Limiting


Over the last few months we noticed an uptick in website owners and some content delivery
networks (CDNs) attempting to use 404 and other 4xx client errors (but not 429) to attempt to
reduce Googlebot's crawl rate.

Meet Our Newest Accelerator: Climate Change Cohort

Posted by Matt Ridenour, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem - USA Scaling high potential startups aimed at tackling climate change can have an immensely positive impact for our planet. In line with Google’s broader commitment to address climate ...

Developer Journey: February 2023

Posted by Lyanne Alfaro, DevRel Program Manager, Google Developer Studio Developer Journey is a monthly series to spotlight diverse and global developers sharing relatable challenges, opportunities, and wins in their journey. Every month, we will sp...

Refreshed Guidelines For Site Owners


In 2002 we launched a page with a set of guidelines for site owners that gave an overview of
best practices when it came to building a site. We called this page "Webmaster Guidelines" and
it's been with us ever since. Since then we a...

Announcing The Search Central Live Brazil Roadshow


We're very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to Brazil! Following our
successful events last year, we're continuing our mission to help you enhance your site's performance
in Google Search. We're organizing th...

Google Dev Library Letter: 17th Edition

Posted by the Dev Library team We are highlighting the best projects developed with Google technologies that have been shared on the Google Dev Library platform. We hope this will spark some inspiration for your next project. Android ...

More Voices = More Bazel

Posted by Lyra Levin, Technical Writer, Software Engineering Takeaways from the BazelCon DEI lunch panelIn front of a standing-room-only lunch panel, Minu Puranik asks us, “If there is one thing you want to change [about Bazel’s DEI culture], w...

Thanks, 2022


You know what time it is: year in a review. With only a few days left of 2022 and with all the
quiet in the office, we thought it would be nice to reflect on this year from Search Central's
perspective.

New Privacy-enhancing Technology For Everyone

Posted by Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy and Data Protection Office As more aspects of our daily lives continue to become digitized, the technology industry’s responsibility to keep personal data safe grows. That’s why, for the past dec...

Search Central Live 2022 Highlights


We spent the past few weeks busy hosting
events in Singapore and Tel Aviv. In this post we look back and discuss the highlights from the events
and some ideas for future events.

Introducing The Google Search Status Dashboard


As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most
current status of systems which impact Search - crawling, indexing, and serving. While
system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be...

Visual Elements Of Google Search


It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about,
especially when you don't know what it's called. The brand new Visual Elements Gallery was
built to help you with this: it contains th...

November Google SEO Office Hours


Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the November edition of the Google SEO office hours!
In this episode, you'll hear answers from folks on the Google Search team: Gary Illyes,
Lizzi Sassman, John Mueller, Alan Kent, and D...

Back In Business: Search Central Live Events


The first of the Search Central Live events is going to happen in-person in Singapore on November 24, 2022.
Registrations are now open until November 15 and we welcome you to fill out the form for a chance to secure your spot at the event;...

Introducing Site Names On Google Search


Today, Search is introducing site names on mobile search results to make it easier to identify
the website that's associated with each result, and we're sharing how you can indicate your
preferred site name with structured data.

The New HTTPS Report In Search Console


Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site
and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get insight...

New In Structured Data: Pros And Cons


Product reviews are a valuable resource for users researching which product to buy.
Product reviews often contain a list of pros and cons, which our research has shown
to be popular with shoppers when making their purchasing decision...

Announcing The New Search Console Video Index Report

To help you understand the performance of your videos on Google, and identify possible areas of
improvement, Search Console is launching a new report called Video indexing. We will roll out
this change gradually over the next few months, so...

Googlebot And The 15 MB Thing

We're addressing some questions we've received the past few days in response to our
documentation update about Googlebot handling up to 15 MB of data on request.

May 2022 Core Update Releasing For Google Search

Several times per year, we make substantial improvements to our overall ranking processes,
which we refer to as core updates. Core updates are designed to increase the overall
relevancy of our search results and make them more helpful and u...