Category: Google Webmaster Blog

Earlier this year, we made a change to only show video thumbnails next to results on the main
Google Search results page when the video is the main content of a page. Today, we’re
extending this change to search results in Video mode…

Since 2013, Google has supported logo structured data, which recognizes two Organization
fields: logo and url. Today we’re expanding our support for organizational information by
extracting additional administrative data such as name…

Since 2013, Google has supported logo structured data, which recognizes two Organization
fields: logo and url. Today we’re expanding our support for organizational information by
extracting additional administrative data such as name…

Today we’re announcing support for profile page and discussion forum structured data for use
in Google Search, including new reports in Search Console. This markup works with Google
Search features that are designed to show first-per…

The crawl rate limiter tool in Search Console is being deprecated on Jan 8th, 2024. This tool
has been
available for over a decade,
but with the improvements we’ve made to our crawling logic and other tools available to
…

As of November 16, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines.
As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance
of our various search r…

As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course
information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of recommendations to provide
course structured data to Google. Publishers now have the…

We’re excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Taipei for the first time ever on December 6. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google
Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the community to lear…

Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we’re showing the most
relevant, helpful content that we can. We’ve had a series of notable updates we’ve shared about
in the past few weeks, and we have two for this month. Given this, it’s a good time to share some
reminders in a Q&A format about how we do updates, why we share about them, and what (if anything)
creators need to consider when one happens.

We’re delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete.

We’re excited to announce that
Search Central Live Singapore
is coming back this year again on November 22. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google
Search team and we’re looking forward to bringing together the commu…

Google Search will start supporting vehicle listings markup, a new way to appear in vehicle listings on Google.
It now has its own Search Console Rich result report and is supported in the testing tool.

We’re releasing an update to our spam detections systems today that will improve our coverage
in many languages and spam types.

We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Zurich on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023!
After our last Search Central Live event in Zurich in December 2019, we’re back in town for more presentations, Q&A and networking!

Search Central Live is coming to Ciudad de México on November 7. The event will have a mix of presenters
from the Google Search, News, and Partnership teams. The content will be delivered in Spanish and English
(with live translation to Spanish). Check more details about speakers, agenda, and how to sign up to the
event.

Today Search Console is enhancing the Shopping section to help businesses with a Merchant Center
account to monitor the status of their products and discover opportunities to improve the
visibility of their products on Google.

In many countries and regions around the world, people commonly speak and search in more than
one language. To best serve them, Google uses a variety of ways to automatically determine
what is the best language or languages to show s…

Last October, site names were introduced on mobile results for select languages, which expanded
to desktop in March. Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all
languages where Google Search is available, …

Every now and then we get questions about errors that we may have shown for sites in Search
Console, and every now and then we encounter folks who seem to be confused about where an
error came from. This is understandable: there are …

With three Search Central Live events behind us this year, it’s time to announce the one we get asked about the most: Search Central India!