Subtwee... subblue: using something as an API doesn't make it an official API.

developers.google.com/search/blog/...

Ask me how it's going at the Shenzhen SEO Conference.

Why do crawlers generally have a per-resource bytesize limit, like Googlebot's 15Mb?

The internet: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467...

24 CPU cores working for 35 hours to train a model, 1% left to completion, and accuracy and loss values look phenomenal. Windows update restarts the PC...

Allegedly intelligent systems that allegedly excel at summarization requiring a manually updated file that essentially says what a site is about feels as intuitive as a sign explaining that the provided toilet paper is not meant to be used for giftwrapping the toilet.

SEO was claimed dead in 1997.

web.archive.org/web/19981206...

O.M.G. PEOPLE! UPDATING THE COPYRIGHT YEAR IN THE BOTTOM OF YOUR PAGES IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT UPDATE, NO NEED TO UPDATE YOUR LASTMOD

Just finished listening to the latest episode of SciShow Tangents, which means I've listened to every single one of the Tangents episodes @hankgreen.bsky.social et al. put out on the public web.

AMA

open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

Nothing says better "I want to wipe out my site from search" than these bad boys. Ok HTTP status codes do. And "noindex". Connection issues? Ok there are many things.

🔥 It's kinda fun watching people lose their shit about the Reddit blackout and blaming centralization, when Usenet (and more recently Tor) had the same problem, but with decentralized communities. You woke up and the community was not there anymore. Then Verizon and co fixed that with centralization

you can't spell cat without a...

"site: example.com" =/= "site:example.com"

While the crypto folks were pushing web3 on the blockchain, there was quite extensive work being done on quantum communications. In fact China demonstrated that entangled photons can carry information to and from a satellite. Somehow, investing time and money in this seems more sensible?

The mitigation on Google's side is now in place so at least Google services are back online in the Philippines. Would love to hear your theories about how an incident like the one described in the article I linked to is mitigated by multi-cluster service owners.

Looks like a cable cut in South/South-East Asia is severely affecting internet users in the Philippines: https://unbox.ph/news/major-internet-outage-in-the-philippines-google-facebook-down/

Check your firewalls and access rules: if you want to use the inspection tools in Search Console, you must allow Google-InspectionTool to access your site (and your clients' sites, if you're a hoster or such)

Should we add something new to sitemaps?