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 ...

The public Open Web Index, a pan-European project set to launch in early trials next month, hopes to reduce Europe's reliance on Google and Bing and create the free flow of information. If implemented ...

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 ...

As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billions of web pages — behind its search engine. By Daisuke Wakabayashi OAKLAND, Calif. — In ...

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 ...