For years and years Google has told us Google doesn't index all the content and URLs they know about on the web. No just because there is a directive telling them not to but because Google chooses not ...

Google has indexed billions of web pages. In fact, according to Statistic Brain – Google had 67,000,000,000 (67 Billion) pages indexed in 2014. But while that’s an impressive number – it still means ...

Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for Web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the Web indexes, the companies are expected to announce ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the Fetch As Google feature within the Google Search Console is only meant to be used for the web index. This came up in regards to figuring out ways to ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why Google indexes pages that are disallowed from crawling by robots.txt and why the it’s safe to ignore the related Search Console reports about those ...

Google is now starting to experiment with one of its biggest changes to search. The company is beginning to test a new "mobile first" version of its search index, meaning the company will prioritize ...

Update, October 16, 2020. The information in this article remains current. We’ve made minor updates, noting that Google now generally refers to this as “mobile-index” as opposed to “mobile-first ...

Furthering its push to improve services for mobile users, Google has decided to start indexing search results for mobile separately from desktop to offer mobile users better and fresher content.