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Transcription for Language complexities in Search index selection and more!

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories

Introducing Google News performance report

Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Google News on our Android and iOS apps, as well as on news.google.com.

Index Coverage Data Improvements

Based on the feedback we got from the community, today we are rolling out significant improvements to the Index Coverage report so you’re better informed on issues that might prevent Google from crawling and indexing your pages. The change is focused on providing a more accurate state to existing issues, which should help you solve them more easily.

Looking back on 2020 with Search Relations

In our very last podcast episode…for 2020, John, Martin, and Gary reflect on the year and how it’s impacted events and community interaction, they share holiday plans, and discuss the new Search Central site. They even touch on some SearchRel plans for 2021 and Gary gives an update on his blog! Curious to learn more? Have a listen!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ 

Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr011-transcript

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcription for Looking back on 2020 with Search Relations

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories

A weird year in review

2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe.

An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool

In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Testing Tool would be deprecated. Since then, we’ve heard your feedback and we’d like to give an update on what the future looks like for the Structured Data Testing Tool

Updates to Search Console’s API

A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as demand grows. Today we’re happy to announce some more updates coming your way.

New and improved crawl stats for your site

To help website owners better understand how

We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs

Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migration, we’re also consolidating the Google Webmaster Blogs into one place on the new site. Today, we’re announcing that this page within the Google Search Central site is the new home for our blog. We migrated all of the archived blog posts, dating back to 2005.