New research of over 16 million webpages shows that Google indexing rates have improved but that many pages in the dataset were not indexed and over 20% of the pages were eventually deindexed. The ...

Decentralized search engines are coming up as an alternative approach. Instead of depending on a single organization to index, rank, and deliver results, they ...

At the increasingly impressive 404 Media, Emanuel Maiberg writes: Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user ...

Reddit Inc. has blocked some search engines’ access to content from its namesake forum platform. The development was first reported by 404 Media on Wednesday and Reddit confirmed the move in a blog ...

In context: As Google users complain about the worsening quality of search results and GenAI integration, European organizations are working to plant the seeds of alternative solutions. One such ...

Decentralized search engines focus on reducing centralized control over ranking and indexing through distributed networks. In this article, you’ll understand ...

Crawlability is the ability for search engines to access and navigate your website’s pages. It’s what allows your content to be discovered, indexed, and shown in search results. Without crawlability, ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...