In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

Googlebot queues pages for both crawling and rendering. It is not immediately obvious when a page is waiting for crawling and when it is waiting for rendering. When Googlebot fetches a URL from the ...

Canonicalization happens both before and after rendering. Conflicting canonical signals between raw HTML and JavaScript output can cause unexpected indexing results. Google recommends setting the ...

The folks at Vercel and MERJ put together a super deep dive on how Google Search handles indexing JavaScript. They analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches across various sites to test and validate ...

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...

Ask Maps lets users query the world in natural language. Immersive Navigation rebuilds directions in 3D. Together, they mark the most significant overhaul of Google Maps since Street View. The ...