You probably already know that your website’s coding can impact your search engine rankings. You know that adding snippets for SEO, like a meta description, alt tags, and title tags, can significantly ...

SEO’s love to write about HTML elements as a vital ranking signal, and as a part of any “perfectly” optimized page. To avoid possible confusion, this is not an HTML guide. Aleh Barysevich, Founder and ...

Krugle Inc. shipped on Tuesday an upgrade of its enterprise code search appliance that is designed to offer improved scalability and search accuracy to software development teams. Krugle is also ...

Google search advocate John Mueller has always downplayed the value of HTML sitemaps. Recently, he reiterated his dissatisfaction with HTML sitemaps, saying: “I changed my mind on HTML sitemaps over ...

HTML structure matters for SEO, but not in the ways most might think. Read on to uncover the real role of HTML for SEO. In case you missed the latest podcast episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s ...

The Rust programming language continues to grow in popularity and now developer platform GitHub has used it to build its new code-focused search engine, Blackbird. Instead of perusing forums for ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. has made three significant enhancements to its search engine, as the Emeryville, California company continues to take aim at its much larger competitors in the search space: Google Inc ...

Search engine crawlers (also called bots) comb through all the content they can find on the internet. They do so by following internal links within websites and links across different websites. The ...

Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of Russian tech giant Yandex’s many apps and services. It also revealed key ranking factors for ...

What just happened? As Google uses generative AI and other features to change how users search the internet, many have expressed the desire to turn back the clock on search engines. Thanks to a ...