It feels premature to talk about the “good old days” of search engine optimization. But as anyone who has performed a search ...

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

Search and ye shall … most likely be tracked. But a growing number of people want to search without leaving a trail, which is why privacy-focused search engines like DuckDuckGo and Brave Search are ...

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Reddit’s CEO, in a note to its investors, has claimed that the company is putting out resources to develop an in-house search engine. It will use its vast user base’s data to provide accurate answers.

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Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important visuals. CSS background images aren’t indexed by Google Image Search. Google ...

Google’s Search Relations team explains how CSS affects SEO, addressing myths about class names, pseudo elements, and page performance. CSS class names have no impact on SEO and aren't read as content ...

CSS for Tabular Data: Using CSS to create table-like layouts for tabular data is generally a misuse. For actual tabular data, using HTML `table` elements is preferred as it allows search engines (and ...

Crawlability is the ability for search engines to access and navigate your website’s pages. It’s what allows your content to be discovered, indexed, and shown in search results. Without crawlability, ...

An Apple executive believes AI search engines could replace what's used today. Alphabet's business relies heavily on dominating the search business. Its shares have been declining due to the ...

After making the decision to ditch Google Search a few months ago, I’ve been making it a point to keep an eye out for new products to try. Amusingly, it took me quite a while to realize there are ...