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

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Reddit and Major Publishers Consider Blocking Google as AI Overviews Cut Search Referral Traffic162
google, traffic, ai
AI and Liability (sch)161
ai, legal, google
German Court Rules Google Can Be Held Liable for False AI Overview Answers160
google, ai, legal
The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear159
web, retrospectives, ai, flash, mobile, open-web
Google Might Have Just Killed Websites (kev)158
videos, google, ai, web
The New Rules of AI Visibility and How to Prepare for It (ale/moz)157
how-tos, ai, seo, aiso, checklists
Ad Infinitum (mat)156
google, ai, economics
Google I/O 2026 and Its Consequences (val)155
google, ai, web
A New Era for AI Search154
google, ai
Optimizing Your Website for Generative AI Features on Google Search153
google, seo, ai, best-practices
Making Your Site Visible to LLMs: 6 Techniques That Work, 8 That Don’t (tra/evi)152
ai, agent-experience, llmstxt, best-practices
The Site-Search Paradox: Why the Big Box Always Wins (sma)151
design, user-experience
What Is SERP Volatility and What Should You Do About It?150
seo, google
How Much Do Keywords Matter in 2026? (moz)149
keywords, seo, google
It’s 2026 and Google Search Is Totally Broken148
google, seo, foss, ai
ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190× More Traffic to Websites (ahr)147
traffic, chatgpt, google, metrics
How AI Is Redefining the Way We Find Content (cle)146
ai, crawling, content, seo
Google Broke My Heart (per)145
google, licensing, legal
Who Rules AI Search? What 3 Months of AI Visibility Data Tells Us (sem)144
ai, domains, metrics
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)143
ai, backlinks, links, metrics
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994–2025) (hei)142
robotstxt, bots, internet-archive, ai
How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites (tra/evi)141
how-tos, astro, functionality
AEO vs. SEO: Core Differences and How to Win Visibility in Both (sem)140
how-tos, seo, comparisons, content
SerpApi: A Complete API for Fetching Search Engine Data (pre/sma)139
apis
You Can’t Track AI Like Traditional Search—Here’s What to Do Instead (lou/ahr)138
ai
How Do You Optimize for AI Search? (sem)137
ai, optimization
15 Ways Your Website Loads From Google Search and How to Measure Each One (paw)136
google, speculation, signed-exchanges, amp, performance
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search (lou/ahr)135
ai, optimization, seo
How AI Is Changing Search Behaviors (nng)134
ai, searching, usability
Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews? (ahr)133
google, ai, seo, aiso
New Google Search Console Insights Report (rus/ser)132
google, seo
The AIpocalypse Is Here for Web Sites as Search Referrals Plunge (tho/the)131
ai, web, traffic
Is Google About to Destroy the Web? (tho)130
google, ai, web
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Era of Search (sem)129
ai, seo, sem, aiso
Google Is Stealing Your International Search Traffic With Automated Translations (ahr)128
google, traffic, localization, seo
Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded—Here’s Why That Matters (tim+/ahr)127
google, branding, marketing, seo
Top Ways to Ensure Your Content Performs Well in Google’s AI Experiences on Search (joh)126
google, ai, content
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? (ahr)125
google, seo, metrics
Break Google’s Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (owa)124
google, chrome, browsers, web-platform, open-web
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahr)123
ai, google, seo, metrics
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years (moz)122
google, content, seo, metrics
DOJ Pushes for Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly121
google, legal, chrome, browsers
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone (sch)120
accessibility, hiding, browsers, html
Is SEO Dead in 2025? No, but Changes Are Coming (sem)119
seo, ai, google
What Is Google’s Navboost Algorithm? (sem)118
google, seo
December 2024 Google Core Update (mor/sem)117
google
Googling Is for Old People: What This Means for Web Designers (web)116
design, mobile, google
Implementing Astro Search Functionality115
astro, functionality
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript114
how-tos, images, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, javascript, functionality
Supporting AVIF in Google Search (joh)113
google, avif, images, support
Turn Off Google AI Overview—Set “Web” as Default112
websites, google, ai
Google’s Broken Link to the Web111
google, web, ai
Basic Algorithms110
algorithms, sorting
The HTML, CSS, and SVG for a Classic Search Form (chr/fro)109
forms, html, css, svg
The SEO Starter Guide Got a Makeover (liz+)108
guides, seo, google
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-Side JavaScript (mez)107
eleventy, serverless, functionality
Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript (fro)106
javascript, algorithms
The Comedy of Errors (met)105
google, tooling, errors
An Update on Site Names104
domains, google
The “details” Element and In-Page Search (mat)103
html, disclosure-widgets, browsers, user-experience
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals102
introductions, performance, web-vitals, seo
How “x-default” Can Help You (met)101
internationalization, urls, html, attributes, google
Don’t Use 403s or 404s for Rate Limiting (met)100
http, content-delivery, rate-limiting, google, seo
Introducing Our New Guide to Google Search Ranking Systems (dan)99
introductions, google, seo
New in Structured Data: Pros and Cons98
structured-data, google, seo
How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website With Vanilla JS (cfe)97
how-tos, functionality, html, javascript
New Robots Tag: “indexifembedded” (met)96
robotstxt, google, seo
In-Page Filtered Search With Vanilla JavaScript (css)95
javascript, functionality
How to Add Search to a Ghost Site (fla)94
how-tos, ghost
More Information on How Google Generates Titles for Web Page Results (dan)93
google, seo
Lighthouse Scores Do Not Affect Google Search/SEO (erw)92
performance, lighthouse, google, seo
An Update to How We Generate Web Page Titles (dan)91
google, seo
Elasticsearch Boolean Query Performance (ast)90
tooling, performance
Using Hotwire to Build a Search Form With Minimal JavaScript (jos)89
hotwire, forms, functionality
Semantic Web and the Knowledge Graph (rob)88
semantic-web, metadata, structured-data
40+ Google Search Hacks, Tips, and Tricks87
google, tips-and-tricks
Evaluating Page Experience for a Better Web86
google, user-experience
Google Confirms Microformats Are Still a Recommended Metadata Format for Content (www)85
google, microformats, metadata, support
Best Practices for News Coverage With Search84
amp
Sunsetting Support for Data-Vocabulary (dan)83
google, structured-data
Goodbye, Flash82
google, flash
A Note on Unsupported Rules in robots.txt (met)81
robotstxt, google
robots.txt Is 25 Years Old80
anniversaries, robotstxt
Google’s robots.txt Parser Is Now Open Source (met+)79
robotstxt, parsing, tooling, google
Help Google Search Know the Best Date for Your Web Page (joh)78
google, time
Announcing Domain-Wide Data in Search Console77
google, tooling, domains
Spoofing Google Search Results76
google
The Two Faces of AMP (tka)75
amp, open-web
Mobile-First Indexing74
google, mobile, mobile-first
Helping Users Easily Access Content on Mobile73
google, mobile, content
AMP Your Content—a Preview of AMP’ed Results in Search72
amp
Indexing HTTPS Pages by Default71
google, http, security
Deprecating Our AJAX Crawling Scheme (nag)70
google, crawling, ajax
Repeated Violations of Webmaster Guidelines69
google
Real-Time Search in JavaScript (osv)68
javascript, functionality
Google’s Handling of New Top Level Domains (joh)67
google, domains, seo
Better Presentation of URLs in Search Results66
google, urls
An Update on Doorway Pages65
google, seo
How to Create a Helpful and Better 404 Page (sma)64
how-tos, error-pages, user-experience, functionality
HTTPS as a Ranking Signal (met)63
google, security, http, seo
Testing robots.txt Files Made Easier62
robotstxt, testing, tooling, crawling, google
Understanding Web Pages Better (hpe+)61
google, javascript
3 Tips to Find Hacking on Your Site, and Ways to Prevent and Fix It60
google, security, tips-and-tricks
3 Guidelines for Search Engine “No Results” Pages (nng)59
guidelines, usability
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests58
backlinks, links, seo, google
Google’s Knowledge Graph—Has Search Just Changed Forever? (the)57
google, semantic-web
Pagination With “rel="next"” and “rel="prev"”56
html, metadata, pagination, google, seo
Introducing schema.org: Search Engines Come Together for a Richer Web55
introductions, structured-data, google, microsoft, yahoo
A “rel=canonical” Corner Case54
google, urls, metadata
Making Websites Mobile Friendly (pie)53
mobile, urls, google
Google 2000 vs. Google 201152
google, retrospectives, spam, comparisons
Breaking the Web With Hash-Bangs51
urls, javascript
Google Now Indexes SVG (jsa)50
google, svg, images
URL Removals Explained: Removing Sensitive Text From a Page (joh)49
google, urls, privacy
A Few Thoughts on SSL Search48
google, ssl
Rich Snippets Go International47
google
Working With Multilingual Websites46
internationalization, localization, urls, unicode, seo, google
State of the Index 200945
videos, google
Search Engines Take on Structured Data (dck/w3c)44
structured-data, microformats, rdf, google
Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches (ore)43
interviews, google, microformats, rdf, structured-data
One-Line Sitelinks42
google
Detecting Googlebombs41
google
A New Google Sitemap Generator for Your Website (joh)40
tooling, sitemaps, google
Google “Not Interested in Semantic Search”39
google, yahoo, semantic-web
The Future of Search According to Google (cat)38
google, outlooks
Interview With Matt Cutts37
videos, interviews, google, spam
Improved Flash Indexing36
google, flash, seo
Crawling Through HTML Forms35
google, crawling, forms, html
Speaking the Language of Robots (sha)34
robotstxt, google, tooling
Tips for Making Information Universally Accessible33
accessibility, google, tips-and-tricks
Debunking a Misconception, Plus a Reminder of How Search Engines Work32
google, censorship
Sitemaps FAQs31
sitemaps, google
Subdomains and Subdirectories30
google, seo, domains
Matt Cutts Discusses the “alt” Attribute29
videos, html, images, alt-text, accessibility, google
Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets28
videos, seo, google
A Spider’s View of Web 2.0 (gre)27
google, accessibility, progressive-enhancement, web-2.0
New robots.txt Feature and REP Meta Tags26
robotstxt, metadata, html, google
Best Uses of Flash25
flash, google, best-practices
Google Hell?24
google
Discover Your Links23
google, links
Controlling How Search Engines Access and Index Your Website22
robotstxt
How Search Results May Differ Based on Accented Characters and Interface Languages21
google, localization
Quick Comment on “nofollow”20
spam, google, metadata
Using a robots.txt File (van)19
robotstxt, google
New robots.txt Tool18
robotstxt, tooling, google
SEO Advice: URL Canonicalization17
seo, urls, google
Hotwiring Your Search Engine (msn)16
seo, google, yahoo, microsoft
Including Site Pages in a Sitemap (van)15
sitemaps, google
Google Search Tips 2005 (blo)14
google, tips-and-tricks
Submitting Mobile Sitemaps (van)13
google, sitemaps, mobile
It’s Not Just About Searching—it’s About Findability12
content-management, information-architecture, usability
8 Quick Ways to Fix Your Search Engine (vee)11
usability, design
The Effects of Contrast and Density on Visual Web Search10
contrast, colors, information-design
5 Questions for Your Web Development Team (joh)9
mobile, performance, legal, accessibility, maintainability, extensibility
Redesigning Google’s Search Results Page8
google, redesigning, design
Weblogging vs. the Googliath (dig)7
blogging, google, seo
On Search: Result Ranking (tim)6
pagerank
Sites Still Have the Same Usability Problems5
usability, design
On Search: Precision and Recall (tim)4
programming
August 2009: How Google Beat Amazon and eBay to the Semantic Web (ftr)3
outlooks, semantic-web, google, amazon, ebay
CSS Accessibility Problems: Is Markup Dead?2
accessibility, css, html, screen-readers
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)1
links, usability