Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status codes. Both 404 and 410s are ...

Short 503 downtimes are acceptable. Extended periods serving 503s harm crawling. Plan updates to minimize 503 window lengths. Google says brief 503 downtimes are acceptable, but extended ...

Also in 2021, Google said they might add 404 vs 410 reporting in Search Console. That is just some of our earlier coverage. The sad part of this response is that the topic of the thread was "Will ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about at what point will 500 error response codes cause Googlebot to crawl content less often. Mueller explained scenarios ...

Each time you visit a web page, a bureaucratic exchange takes place between your computer’s web browser and a distant web server. Your web browser (called the ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Most savvy internet users should be familiar with at least a few HTTP status codes. 404, for example, ...

Google Search faces outage reports as users hit 500 server errorGoogle Search ran into trouble for many users on May 12, 2026, with reports of “500 Internal Server Error” messages appearing across ...