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Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling Architecture
Google’s Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot’s crawling systems work. The post covers byte limits, partial fetching behavior, and how Google’s crawling infrastructure is organized. The post references episode 105 of the Search Off the Record podcast, where Illyes and Martin Splitt discussed the same topics. Illyes adds more details about crawling architecture and byte-level behavior. What’s…
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Who Owns SEO In The Enterprise? The Accountability Gap That Kills Performance
Enterprise SEO doesn’t fail because teams don’t care, lack expertise, or miss tactics. It fails because ownership is fractured. In most large organizations, everyone controls a piece of SEO, yet no single group owns the outcome. Visibility, traffic, and discoverability depend on dozens of upstream decisions made across engineering, content, product, UX, legal, and local markets. SEO is measured on…
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Google Answers Why Core Updates Can Roll Out In Stages
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question about whether core updates roll out in stages or follow a fixed sequence. His answer offers some clarity about how core updates are rolled out and also about what some core updates actually are. Question About Core Update Timing And Volatility An SEO asked on Bluesky whether core updates behave like a single…
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Why Google’s New “Google-Agent” Is The Biggest Mindset Shift In SEO History
Imagine a web where a machine fills out your lead forms, buys your products, and negotiates with your backend. While many SEOs are currently arguing over whether to block AI search bots, whether to call ourselves SEOs or GEOs, or optimizing to get mentioned in ChatGPT, the reality of the web is moving far past simple crawlers. With Google’s new…
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Google Tests AI Headlines, Rolls Out Spam Update – SEO Pulse
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how your headlines appear in Search, how spam enforcement played out, and how AI content gets labeled. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Tests AI-Generated Headline Rewrites In Search Google confirmed that it’s testing AI-generated headline rewrites in traditional search results. The test uses language similar to what Google used…
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Google Begins Rolling Out March 2026 Core Update
Google has begun rolling out the March core update, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. The rollout began at 2:00 AM PT, with the release note posted at 2:14 AM PDT. Google said the rollout may take up to two weeks to complete. What’s New The Search Status Dashboard lists the update as an incident affecting ranking, with the…
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Google Takes Search Live Global With Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
Google is expanding Search Live to more than 200 countries and territories, bringing voice and camera conversations to AI Mode globally. The expansion is powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a new audio model that Google calls its highest-quality yet. It’s inherently multilingual, so you can speak with Search in your preferred language without switching settings. Search Live was previously…
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TurboQuant Has The Potential To Fundamentally Change How Search (And AI) Works
Google published a blog post on a new breakthrough in vector search technology called TurboQuant. The potential implications of this technology for Search are staggering! TurboQuant is a suite of advanced algorithms that drastically reduce AI processing size and memory requirements. Their blog post says, “This has potentially profound implications … especially in the domains of Search and AI.” Let’s…
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Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters
Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used a recent episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to discuss whether webpages are getting too large and what that means for both users and crawlers. The conversation started with a simple question: are websites getting fat? Splitt immediately pushed back on the framing, arguing that website-level size is meaningless. Individual page…
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