Microsoft announced IndexNow, a major evolution in how all search engines can discover and index content. IndexNow is open source and open to all participating search engines. When content is ...

Google shares more details about the impact of content quality on webpage indexing. Google assesses webpage quality during indexing to determine ranking in search results. High-quality content is ...

When the acorn that would become the SEO industry started to grow, indexing and ranking at search engines were both based purely on keywords. The search engine would match keywords in a query to ...

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 ...

Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative named IndexNow that lets site owners ping IndexNow's protocol to achieve instant indexing with the participating search engines. The participating ...

Google Search Console appears to have fixed the month-long delay with the page indexing report just about an hour ago. The ...

IT managers deal with a relentless sprawl of unstructured data. Research firm Meta Group estimates corporate storage for each employee was 3GB in 2003, and most analysts say this requirement is ...

Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.

There is a confirmed indexing issue in Google Search prior to 7 am ET this morning. None of the articles I posted this morning on this site are showing yet in Google Search, even when I search for it ...

Botify has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by InfraVia Growth with Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund also participating. The company has created a search engine optimization (SEO) ...

DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has often been misunderstood regarding its use of search results from other sources, particularly Bing. To clarify, DuckDuckGo does indeed use results from ...