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Google regularly publishes videos on the Google Search Central YouTube channel (SEO Office Hours, Search News, engineer interviews). Captions are transcribed then AI-analyzed to extract important official statements, with a precise timestamp so you can jump straight to the source clip.

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When to check? To verify the official stance on a contentious topic, or catch up on the latest Search News without watching 30 minutes of video.

Does Google really retry indexing your pages after a 401 error or server downtime?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Should you use hreflang 'de' or 'de-de' to target German speakers?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Is an XML sitemap really essential for Google to index your website?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Does LCP really only measure what's visible in your viewport at load time?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Strong vs Bold: Does Google really make a difference between these two tags?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Does Google offer a button to force massive reindexing of a website after a redesign?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Should you consolidate all hreflang annotations in one sitemap or split them by language?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Is AdsBot skewing your Search Console crawl data without you knowing?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Why does Google insist on isolating site migrations from any other redesign work?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Should you choose a ccTLD over .com to target a local market?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Does multilingual duplicate content really hurt your international SEO rankings?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
What does Google really consider a prominent video, and why does it matter for your search rankings?
👤 Lizzi Sassman 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Does Google really detect WEBP format through the HTTP header rather than the file extension?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Do you really need to notify Google when redesigning your website?
👤 John Mueller 📅 Mar 9, 2023
Does Google really test its robots.txt parser with such rigorous standards internally?
👤 Edu Pereda 📅 Mar 8, 2023
Is your robots.txt file being treated as a security threat by Google?
👤 Martin Splitt 📅 Mar 8, 2023
What kind of extreme testing does Google really put its robots.txt parser through?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Mar 8, 2023
Why did Google just release an official Java parser for robots.txt?
👤 Edu Pereda 📅 Mar 8, 2023
Why can your robots.txt be interpreted differently by Search Console and Google Search?
👤 Edu Pereda 📅 Mar 8, 2023
Did Google just hand you the ultimate robots.txt validation tool?
👤 Gary Illyes 📅 Mar 8, 2023
Does manually resubmitting corrected URLs in Search Console really speed up reindexing?
👤 Jamie Indigo 📅 Mar 2, 2023
Does poor JavaScript error handling really tank your Google rankings?
👤 Jamie Indigo 📅 Mar 2, 2023
Can Chrome DevTools reveal the rendering problems that Googlebot encounters on your pages?
👤 Jamie Indigo 📅 Mar 2, 2023
Can a single failed AJAX request destroy the indexability of your entire page?
👤 Jamie Indigo 📅 Mar 2, 2023