Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this episode of SOTR, John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes talk about misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality, what's challenging about crawling the web nowadays, and how search engines could crawl more efficiently.

Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr079-transcript
Gary's post on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3YAT55q
Crawling episode with Dave Smart → https://goo.gle/3WShUsf
If-Modified-Since → https://goo.gle/3ywXvja
About the IETF → https://goo.gle/3SGVVlo
Robots Exclusion Protocol → https://goo.gle/4dgmBSg
Proposal for new kind of chunked transfer → https://goo.gle/3AgMF1c

Watch more Search Off the Record → https://goo.gle/sotr-yt
Subscribe to Google Search Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

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Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Gary Illyes
Products Mentioned: Search Console - General