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Definition · Supertopics: web · Subtopics: aiso, robotstxt, sem, seo, sitemaps (non-exhaustive) · “search” RSS feed (per email)

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
AI and Liability (sch)151
ai, legal, google
German Court Rules Google Can Be Held Liable for False AI Overview Answers150
google, ai, legal
Google Might Have Just Killed Websites (kev)149
videos, google, ai, web
The New Rules of AI Visibility and How to Prepare for It (ale/moz)148
how-tos, ai, seo, aiso, checklists
Ad Infinitum (mat)147
google, ai, economics
Google I/O 2026 and Its Consequences (val)146
google, ai, web
A New Era for AI Search145
google, ai
Optimizing Your Website for Generative AI Features on Google Search144
google, seo, ai, best-practices
Making Your Site Visible to LLMs: 6 Techniques That Work, 8 That Don’t (tra/evi)143
ai, agent-experience, llmstxt, best-practices
The Site-Search Paradox: Why the Big Box Always Wins (sma)142
design, user-experience
What Is SERP Volatility and What Should You Do About It?141
seo, google
How Much Do Keywords Matter in 2026? (moz)140
keywords, seo, google
It’s 2026 and Google Search Is Totally Broken139
google, seo, foss, ai
ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190× More Traffic to Websites (ahr)138
traffic, chatgpt, google, metrics
How AI Is Redefining the Way We Find Content (cle)137
ai, crawling, content, seo
Google Broke My Heart (per)136
google, licensing, legal
Who Rules AI Search? What 3 Months of AI Visibility Data Tells Us (sem)135
ai, domains, metrics
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)134
ai, backlinks, links, metrics
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994–2025) (hei)133
robotstxt, internet-archive, ai
How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites (tra/evi)132
how-tos, astro, functionality
AEO vs. SEO: Core Differences and How to Win Visibility in Both (sem)131
how-tos, seo, comparisons, content
SerpApi: A Complete API for Fetching Search Engine Data (pre/sma)130
apis
You Can’t Track AI Like Traditional Search—Here’s What to Do Instead (lou/ahr)129
ai
How Do You Optimize for AI Search? (sem)128
ai, optimization
15 Ways Your Website Loads From Google Search and How to Measure Each One (paw)127
google, speculation, signed-exchanges, amp, performance
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search (lou/ahr)126
ai, optimization, seo
How AI Is Changing Search Behaviors (nng)125
ai, searching, usability
Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews? (ahr)124
google, ai, seo, aiso
New Google Search Console Insights Report (rus/ser)123
google, seo
The AIpocalypse Is Here for Web Sites as Search Referrals Plunge (tho/the)122
ai, web, traffic
Is Google About to Destroy the Web? (tho)121
google, ai, web
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Era of Search (sem)120
ai, seo, sem, aiso
Google Is Stealing Your International Search Traffic With Automated Translations (ahr)119
google, traffic, localization, seo
Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded—Here’s Why That Matters (tim+/ahr)118
google, branding, marketing, seo
Top Ways to Ensure Your Content Performs Well in Google’s AI Experiences on Search (joh)117
google, ai, content
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? (ahr)116
google, seo, metrics
Break Google’s Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (owa)115
google, chrome, browsers, web-platform, open-web
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahr)114
ai, google, seo, metrics
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years (moz)113
google, content, seo, metrics
DOJ Pushes for Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly112
google, legal, chrome, browsers
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone (sch)111
accessibility, hiding, browsers, html
Is SEO Dead in 2025? No, but Changes Are Coming (sem)110
seo, ai, google
What Is Google’s Navboost Algorithm? (sem)109
google, seo
December 2024 Google Core Update (mor/sem)108
google
Googling Is for Old People: What This Means for Web Designers (web)107
design, mobile, google
Implementing Astro Search Functionality106
astro, functionality
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript105
how-tos, images, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, javascript, functionality
Supporting AVIF in Google Search (joh)104
google, avif, images, support
Turn Off Google AI Overview—Set “Web” as Default103
websites, google, ai
Google’s Broken Link to the Web102
google, web, ai
Basic Algorithms101
algorithms, sorting
The HTML, CSS, and SVG for a Classic Search Form (chr/fro)100
forms, html, css, svg
The SEO Starter Guide Got a Makeover (liz+)99
guides, seo, google
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-Side JavaScript (mez)98
eleventy, serverless, functionality
Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript (fro)97
javascript, algorithms
The Comedy of Errors (met)96
google, tooling, errors
An Update on Site Names95
domains, google
The “details” Element and In-Page Search (mat)94
html, disclosure-widgets, browsers, user-experience
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals93
introductions, performance, web-vitals, google, seo
How “x-default” Can Help You (met)92
internationalization, urls, html, attributes, google
Don’t Use 403s or 404s for Rate Limiting (met)91
http, content-delivery, rate-limiting, google, seo
Introducing Our New Guide to Google Search Ranking Systems (dan)90
introductions, google, seo
New in Structured Data: Pros and Cons89
structured-data, google, seo
How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website With Vanilla JS (cfe)88
how-tos, functionality, html, javascript
New Robots Tag: “indexifembedded” (met)87
robotstxt, google, seo
In-Page Filtered Search With Vanilla JavaScript (css)86
javascript, functionality
How to Add Search to a Ghost Site (fla)85
how-tos, ghost
More Information on How Google Generates Titles for Web Page Results (dan)84
google, seo
Lighthouse Scores Do Not Affect Google Search/SEO (erw)83
performance, lighthouse, google, seo
An Update to How We Generate Web Page Titles (dan)82
google, seo
Elasticsearch Boolean Query Performance (ast)81
tooling, performance
Using Hotwire to Build a Search Form With Minimal JavaScript (jos)80
hotwire, forms, functionality
Semantic Web and the Knowledge Graph (rob)79
semantic-web, metadata, structured-data
Evaluating Page Experience for a Better Web78
google, user-experience
Google Confirms Microformats Are Still a Recommended Metadata Format for Content (www)77
google, microformats, metadata, support
Best Practices for News Coverage With Search76
google, amp
Sunsetting Support for Data-Vocabulary (dan)75
google, structured-data
Goodbye, Flash74
google, flash
A Note on Unsupported Rules in robots.txt (met)73
robotstxt, google
robots.txt Is 25 Years Old72
anniversaries, robotstxt
Google’s robots.txt Parser Is Now Open Source (met+)71
robotstxt, parsing, tooling, google
Help Google Search Know the Best Date for Your Web Page (joh)70
google, time
Announcing Domain-Wide Data in Search Console69
google, tooling, domains
The Two Faces of AMP (tka)68
amp, google, open-web
Mobile-First Indexing67
google, mobile, mobile-first
Helping Users Easily Access Content on Mobile66
google, mobile, content
AMP Your Content—a Preview of AMP’ed Results in Search65
google, amp
Indexing HTTPS Pages by Default64
google, http, security
Deprecating Our AJAX Crawling Scheme (nag)63
google, crawling, ajax
Repeated Violations of Webmaster Guidelines62
google
Real-Time Search in JavaScript (osv)61
javascript, functionality
Google’s Handling of New Top Level Domains (joh)60
google, domains, seo
Better Presentation of URLs in Search Results59
google, urls
An Update on Doorway Pages58
google, seo
How to Create a Helpful and Better 404 Page (sma)57
how-tos, error-pages, user-experience, functionality
HTTPS as a Ranking Signal (met)56
google, security, http, seo
Testing robots.txt Files Made Easier55
robotstxt, testing, tooling, crawling, google
Understanding Web Pages Better (hpe+)54
google, javascript
3 Tips to Find Hacking on Your Site, and Ways to Prevent and Fix It53
google, security, tips-and-tricks
3 Guidelines for Search Engine “No Results” Pages (nng)52
guidelines, usability
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests51
backlinks, links, seo, google
Google’s Knowledge Graph—Has Search Just Changed Forever? (the)50
google, semantic-web
Pagination With “rel="next"” and “rel="prev"”49
html, metadata, pagination, google, seo
Introducing schema.org: Search Engines Come Together for a Richer Web48
introductions, structured-data, google, microsoft, yahoo
A “rel=canonical” Corner Case47
google, urls, metadata
Making Websites Mobile Friendly (pie)46
mobile, urls, google
Google 2000 vs. Google 201145
google, retrospectives, spam, comparisons
Breaking the Web With Hash-Bangs44
urls, javascript
Google Now Indexes SVG (jsa)43
google, svg, images
URL Removals Explained: Removing Sensitive Text From a Page (joh)42
google, urls, privacy
A Few Thoughts on SSL Search41
google, ssl
Rich Snippets Go International40
google
Working With Multilingual Websites39
internationalization, localization, urls, unicode, seo, google
State of the Index 200938
videos, google
Search Engines Take on Structured Data (dck/w3c)37
structured-data, microformats, rdf, google
Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches (ore)36
interviews, google, microformats, rdf, structured-data
One-Line Sitelinks35
google
Detecting Googlebombs34
google
A New Google Sitemap Generator for Your Website (joh)33
tooling, sitemaps, google
Google “Not Interested in Semantic Search”32
google, yahoo, semantic-web
The Future of Search According to Google (cat)31
google, outlooks
Interview With Matt Cutts30
videos, interviews, google, spam
Improved Flash Indexing29
google, flash, seo
Crawling Through HTML Forms28
google, crawling, forms, html
Speaking the Language of Robots (sha)27
robotstxt, google, tooling
Tips for Making Information Universally Accessible26
accessibility, google, tips-and-tricks
Debunking a Misconception, Plus a Reminder of How Search Engines Work25
google, censorship
Sitemaps FAQs24
sitemaps, google
Subdomains and Subdirectories23
google, seo, domains
Matt Cutts Discusses the “alt” Attribute22
videos, html, images, alt-text, accessibility, google
Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets21
videos, seo, google
A Spider’s View of Web 2.0 (gre)20
google, accessibility, progressive-enhancement, web-2.0
New robots.txt Feature and REP Meta Tags19
robotstxt, metadata, html, google
Best Uses of Flash18
flash, google, best-practices
Google Hell?17
google
Discover Your Links16
google, links
Controlling How Search Engines Access and Index Your Website15
robotstxt
How Search Results May Differ Based on Accented Characters and Interface Languages14
google, localization
Quick Comment on “nofollow”13
spam, google, metadata
Using a robots.txt File (van)12
robotstxt, google
New robots.txt Tool11
robotstxt, tooling, google
SEO Advice: URL Canonicalization10
seo, urls, google
Hotwiring Your Search Engine (msn)9
seo, google, yahoo, microsoft
Including Site Pages in a Sitemap (van)8
sitemaps, google
Google Search Tips 2005 (blo)7
google, tips-and-tricks
Submitting Mobile Sitemaps (van)6
google, sitemaps, mobile
5 Questions for Your Web Development Team (joh)5
mobile, performance, legal, accessibility, maintainability, extensibility
Redesigning Google’s Search Results Page4
google, redesigning, design
Weblogging vs. the Googliath (dig)3
blogging, google, seo
August 2009: How Google Beat Amazon and eBay to the Semantic Web (ftr)2
outlooks, semantic-web, google, amazon, ebay
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)1
links, usability