Stack: PDF Scanner

Google to shut down Stack: PDF Scanner

Google is discontinuing its document scanning app, Stack: PDF Scanner by Google Area 120. This follows the closure of other services like Google One VPN. Google’s Area 120 incubator is a breeding ground for innovative projects, including the successful document scanner you might be familiar with. It’s also the birthplace of tech giants like Gmail,…

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Google responds to a crawl budget issue query

On Reddit, someone asked a question about their website having problems with crawling, wondering if too many 301 redirects to 410 error pages were causing Googlebot to use up their crawl budget. John Mueller from Google provided an explanation for why the person might be facing a slow crawl and clarified some details about crawl…

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Gemma: Google announces laptop-friendly open language model

Google has unveiled Gemma, an open large language model inspired by Gemini’s technology. Gemma is a potent yet lightweight model, designed for efficient use in resource-constrained environments, such as laptops or cloud infrastructure. It serves a versatile role, enabling the creation of chatbots, content generation tools, and various other language model applications—an eagerly anticipated tool…

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Google will display more product options with new markup

Google has unveiled extended structured data assistance for product variants within its Search results. This enhanced markup enables online retailers to exhibit the diverse iterations of their merchandise, encompassing aspects like color, size, material, and beyond. Priorly, Google endorsed structured data solely for individual products, shipping, and returns. The introduction of the new product group…

Google Complete Re-Indexing

Google answers how to trigger a complete re-indexing

Google recently released a video addressing how to prompt an automatic re-indexing of an entire website. The response focused on situations involving significant changes to the website, requiring a comprehensive crawl to swiftly update Google’s index. The person asking the question sought information on initiating a complete recrawl of the entire site. Google’s John Mueller…

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No Perfect Formula for Search Rankings, says Google

In a recent announcement on social media, Google’s Search Liaison emphasized that there is no one-size-fits-all formula for creating the perfect webpage to achieve high rankings in search results. The statement begins: “Today I wanted to share about the belief that there is some type of “perfect page” formula that must be used to rank highly in…