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Get Ready for Search Central Live Asia Pacific 2025

Hello 2025! (Yeah, we know, time flies!) We’ve had some exciting plans in the works for Search Central Live (SCL) Asia Pacific this year, and we’re super excited to let you in on what we’ve been up to. We’ve been listening closely to your...

The Search Analytics API now supports hourly data

A few months ago, we announced an improved way to view recent performance data in Search Console. The “24 hours” view includes data from the last available 24 hours and appears with a delay of only a few hours. This view can help you find information about...

Robots Refresher: Future-proof Robots Exclusion Protocol

In the previous posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) we explored what’s already possible to do with its various components — namely robots.txt and the URI level controls. In this post we will explore how the REP can play a supporting role in the...

Robots Refresher: page-level granularity

With the robots.txt file, site owners have a simple way to control which parts of a website are accessible by crawlers. To help site owners further express how search engines and web crawlers can use their pages, the web standards group came up with robots meta tags...

Search Central Live is going to Madrid

We’re very excited to announce that Search Central Live is going to Madrid for the first time on April 9! The event will have a mix of presenters from the Google Search, News, and Partnerships teams and the content will be delivered in English and Spanish, but...