In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

Google has expanded its OSS-Fuzz Reward Program to offer rewards of up to $30,000 for researchers who find security flaws in open-source programs. The expanded scope of the program now means the total ...

Google can index JS-loaded images when properly configured. Check rendered HTML in Search Console to diagnose why images aren't appearing. Update XML sitemaps and add alt text to maximize JS image ...

A site owner blamed Google AI Search for falsely saying their site was offline. The explanation was a lesson about content ...

Googlebot queues pages for both crawling and rendering. It is not immediately obvious when a page is waiting for crawling and when it is waiting for rendering. When Googlebot fetches a URL from the ...

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...

Google made another change to the JavaScript SEO documentation help document to explain and clarify JavaScript execution on non-200 HTTP status codes. The change. Google wrote, “All pages with a 200 ...

At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about ...