Google's Gary Illyes explains how web standards benefit SEO, focusing on the differences between robots.txt and sitemaps. Web standards help ensure that websites are interpreted in the same way across ...

Google is helping internet users fight online crime. Users of the ubiquitous search engine will soon have free access to a tool that allows anyone to see if their personal information has been stolen ...

Google is experimenting on a new Web Guide feature which helps organize search results into specific categories and gives users the most relevant data to their web queries. This is the latest Search ...

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring this week. Here’s why it never helped much – and what actually protects your ...

Google is significantly restricting its free search index. Developers will have to switch to paid enterprise services by ...

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Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

Google is asserting that web traffic is not suffering because of AI tools and that its search engine directs visitors to an unprecedented array of websites. But last week, Google contradicted this ...

In context: The dark web is a portion of the internet accessed only through specific software clients. Tor and other dark web networks are not inherently illegal. However, cybercriminals often abuse ...

Google is discontinuing its "dark web report" security tool, stating that it wants to focus on other tools it believes are more helpful. Google's dark web report tool is a security feature that ...

Google's data collection can be a double-edged sword: helpful in some instances and too invasive in others. Here's how to ...