Sunday, December 31, 2023<\/p>\n
\n I’m sure you’re all wondering why we have gathered you here today. That’s right: it’s the end of
\n year blog post in which we go over what happened in 2023 on Google Search Central, and have some
\n fun along the way!\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2023 we brought our flagship event series, \n We talked about all sorts of things that, based on the post event feedback, the audience found \n Speaking of documentation, looking at the changelog<\/a>, we were pretty \n On the topic of crawling, we added a few more crawlers and product tokens to our \n We wrote a lot about structured data<\/a> that \n In indexing we declared that the road to \n The Search Console team was once again on steroids this year and the tool got a bunch of new \n On ranking, we published guidance about \n We’ve got more than just docs and events to help those needing guidance.\n<\/p>\n \n We continued with our podcast, \n SEO Office Hours<\/a> are now available in English and
\n Google Search Central Live<\/a>, to new
\n locations—on top of those that we usually visit like Singapore and Tokyo. We somehow ended
\n up in Jakarta, Mexico City, S\u00e3o Paulo, Taipei, and a bunch of other places, and the reception was
\n pretty fantastic everywhere; check this out:\n<\/p>\n
\n valuable and useful. Like what, you ask? To list a couple, the
\n How Search Works<\/a> talks and our
\n talks about AI<\/a>
\n are particularly highly rated. Just like these two talks, everything else we talked about at the
\n events is on Search Central, so you just have to dig into the over 1000 pages worth of
\n documentation and blog posts!\n<\/p>\nDocs<\/h2>\n
\n busy.\n<\/p>\n
\n list of crawlers<\/a>,
\n talked about caching, and documented in painful detail
\n the IP ranges Google’s crawlers and fetchers use<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n powers some Search features that help people find
\n vacation rentals<\/a>, but also to enable
\n businesses to better
\n control their organization details<\/a>
\n on our search result pages.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mobile First Indexing<\/a> is complete, it’s
\n just “indexing” now, and expanded our docs about
\n canonicalization<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n things: bulk data export<\/a>, updated
\n user and permissions management<\/a>,
\n and
\n association between the Merchant Center and Search Console<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n AI-generated content<\/a>, and went
\n into more detail about
\n creating helpful content<\/a>. We also
\n added a Q&A about ranking updates to help with recurring questions.\n<\/p>\nMore help<\/h2>\n
\n Search Off the Record<\/a>,
\n where you can hear some behind the scenes information about Search, sometimes in ASMR format. If
\n you prefer videos, John kept publishing
\n Google Search News videos<\/a>,
\n Daniel<\/a> explored
\n Google SafeSearch<\/a>
\n with Emma and
\n Google News<\/a> with
\n Cherry<\/a>. Martin kept doing Martin-things as
\n usual, sometimes as
\n fairy tales<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n Japanese<\/a>, courtesy of
\n John<\/a> and
\n Anna<\/a>, where we answer some of the
\n questions that you submitted on this page<\/a>. They’re
\n pretty fun, you should check them out!\n<\/p>\n