For years and years Google has told us Google doesn't index all the content and URLs they know about on the web. No just because there is a directive telling them not to but because Google chooses not ...

Google has confirmed that the Search Console index coverage report, also the page indexing report, are now delayed about two ...

Google has indexed billions of web pages. In fact, according to Statistic Brain – Google had 67,000,000,000 (67 Billion) pages indexed in 2014. But while that’s an impressive number – it still means ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console is only meant to be used for the web index. This came up in regards to figuring out ways to ...

Microsoft Bing announced in October the development of a new crawling protocol called IndexNow that promises to make crawling and indexing more efficient. Google however has remained silent about ...

The public Open Web Index, a pan-European project set to launch in early trials next month, hopes to reduce Europe's reliance on Google and Bing and create the free flow of information. If implemented ...

FILE -- The headquarters of Google in Mountain View, Calif., on Oct. 20, 2020. Google has a huge edge over rival search engines because its popularity keeps adding to its understanding of what ...

Google is now starting to experiment with one of its biggest changes to search. The company is beginning to test a new "mobile first" version of its search index, meaning the company will prioritize ...

In a report on Web Stories usage, Google says 100,000 new stories are now being added to the search index every day. Google’s report includes data on how Web Stories is growing as a content format, ...

Update, October 16, 2020. The information in this article remains current. We’ve made minor updates, noting that Google now generally refers to this as “mobile-index” as opposed to “mobile-first ...

As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billions of web pages — behind its search engine. By Daisuke Wakabayashi OAKLAND, Calif. — In ...