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First Search Central Live in South Africa



On April 2, 2025 we'll be in Johannesburg, South Africa for the very first Search Central Live event in Africa!
We're excited to welcome you at Search Central Live South Africa and talk about all things Google Search!

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Robots Refresher: introducing a new series



Every now and then we get questions about robots.txt, robots meta tags, and the control
functionality that they offer. Following our December series on crawling,
we thought this would be the perfect time to put together ...
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Search Central Live is going to New York City


We're excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming to New York City for the first time on March 20, 2025.
The Google Search team has organized events in the city several times, but this time we're bringing our main Search event t...
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Search Central Live is returning to Brazil


We're excited to announce that Search Central Live is returning to São Paulo in 2025. Following our
successful events in 2023 and 2024, we're continuing our mission to help Brazilian businesses enhance
their site's performance ...
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Crawling out of December: the 2024 recap



It might happen that by the end of this post you're going to try to decide who wrote this blog
post, a large language model (LLM) or Gary. And you'd be right to ponder that and delve into the
intricacies of the language ...
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Crawling December: CDNs and crawling



Content delivery networks (CDNs) are particularly well suited for decreasing latency of your
website and in general keeping web traffic-related headaches away. This is their primary purpose
after all: speedy delivery of ...
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TAG Bulletin: Q4 2024

This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns terminated on our platforms in Q4 2024. It was last updated on December 17, 2024.OctoberWe terminated 11…
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Crawling December: Faceted navigation



Faceted navigation is a great way to help users find what they need on your site, but it can
create an SEO nightmare if not implemented carefully. Why? Because it can generate a near-infinite
number of URLs, which causes...
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