Why are log files important for SEO? For starters, they contain information that is not available elsewhere Log files are also one of the only ways to see Google’s actual behavior on your site. They ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...

Wikimedia today announced it is making anonymous search log files for Wikipedia (and its sister projects) available for the first time, under a CC0 1.0 Universal license. This means that you can copy, ...

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Last week, AOL’s PR team cringed as the world learned that the company had publicly posted search terms from 650,000 AOL users. They posted the search log on a research site, and subsequently took it ...

Log files are like an internet of things (IoT) for IT. Log data is vital for all IT organisations – it tells us everything that has happened in our environment and is a valuable source of information ...

AOL apologized on Monday for releasing search log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with the company's newly launched research site. The randomly selected data, which focused on ...

Back in March 2007, Google promised to begin anonymizing log data to better protect user privacy. That kicked off a wave of privacy pledges from competing search engines. In addition, by agreeing to ...