Suppose you’ve just composed the most objectively useful, engaging and brilliant web content ever. Now suppose that content remained unseen and unheard of, never once appearing in search results.

Google has launched an experiment designed to speed the flow of Web site information to the search giant's index. The program, called Sitemaps, is free to site administrators and owners, whether they ...

Google's Gary Illyes advises focusing on high-quality content and increasing social media popularity to accelerate website indexing. Indexing speed depends on website quality and popularity.

Google's Lisa Wang said yesterday, about 12 hours ago, that they fixed the indexing issues some news publishers were experiencing. In short, news publisher's content would not show in the web search ...

At the end of 2018, Google said mobile-first indexing — that is, using a website’s mobile version to index its pages — was being used for more than half the web pages in Google search results. Today, ...

Over the next couple of years, how search engines index content will likely change. I’ve covered this viewpoint in Why 100% indexing isn’t possible, and why that’s OK. Still, this ultimately means ...

My first thought when stepping into the Powerset offices: "Overfunded." The company, which aims to create a better search engine than Google, already has some of the search giant's trappings: fancy ...

In August of last year, we wrote about Caffeine, the codename for Google’s latest iteration of its search product. The idea behind it was simple yet encompassing: to “push the envelope on size, ...