A new study by Pew Research Center reveals the fleeting nature of online information: 38% of webpages from 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. The analysis, conducted in October, examined broken links on government and news websites and in the “References” section of Wikipedia pages. The findings reveal that: 23% of news webpages … Read more
A report based on independently verified accounts notes that Apple’s Safari 18 will come with an Intelligent Search feature that summarize webpages in response to search queries and there may be a new feature called Web Eraser that allows users to permanently remove text, images, advertisements from webpages. The Potential For Disruption By Apple AI … Read more
In a Google Search Central video Google’s Gary Illyes explained part of webpage indexing that involves selecting canonicals, explaining what a canonical means to Google, a thumbnail explanation of webpage signals, he mentions the centerpiece of a page and tells what it does with the duplicates which implies a new way of thinking about them. … Read more
Google announced a new way to run JavaScript that improves webpage responsiveness, helping publishers who use it to beat their competitors performance in a new core web vital metric. The announcement provides a sneak peek at a way to turbocharge webpage performance. If this trial is successful then it may be something that publishers across … Read more
Brave announced a new AI-based rich result in its search engine results pages that feature an AI summarization of the content instead of the usual meta description. In in some cases, the Brave Search Summarizer will show a summary derived from two websites together. The Summarizer is currently showing for approximately 17% of search queries … Read more
Crawling enterprise sites has all the complexities of any normal crawl plus several additional factors that need to be considered before beginning the crawl. The following approaches show how to accomplish a large-scale crawl and achieve the given objectives, whether it’s part of an ongoing checkup or a site audit. 1. Make The Site Ready … Read more
