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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · 12d

not particularly, no

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · 22d

Subtwee... subblue: using something as an API doesn't make it an official API.

developers.google.com/search/blog/...

Update on the Autocomplete API | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

developers.google.com

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · 23d

Ask me how it's going at the Shenzhen SEO Conference.

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'd check the documentation and if you can't find anything relevant, file a feedback. Our tech writer checks the feedback quite often and makes improvements based on them.

developers.google.com/search/docs/...

Intro to How Structured Data Markup Works | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers

Google uses structured data markup to understand content. Explore this guide to discover how structured data works, review formats, and learn where to place it on your site.

developers.google.com

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 28

I think John is on it, don't wanna step on his toes

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 28

I do

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 20

I don't cos I'm on vacation, but we put this up with mirja a few weeks ago: www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

Crawler best practices

This document describes best pratices for web crawlers.

www.ietf.org

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 13

That explains my mental state

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 13

Why do crawlers generally have a per-resource bytesize limit, like Googlebot's 15Mb?

The internet: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467...

A valid HTML zip bomb | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 4

First question: because RAM. CPU has direct access to RAM of which I have plenty, GPU needs to get the data into the VRAM, which I have not so plenty (plus there's considerable overhead when moving data from RAM to VRAM)

As for the second question, the answer is "games that don't like linux"

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Aug 4

24 CPU cores working for 35 hours to train a model, 1% left to completion, and accuracy and loss values look phenomenal. Windows update restarts the PC...

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jul 31

What do you mean if that would be ok (with me)? People can do whatever they like with their sites. I do.

In the greater scheme of things though it's very easy to draw a parallel between 1990's keywords meta tag and this, and we all know how... useful the keywords meta tag became, very fast

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jul 29

Allegedly intelligent systems that allegedly excel at summarization requiring a manually updated file that essentially says what a site is about feels as intuitive as a sign explaining that the provided toilet paper is not meant to be used for giftwrapping the toilet.

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jul 27

this sounds a lot like the type of content I used to put on the internet cca. 2005

a man wearing a pink apron and wig is making a funny face .

ALT: a man wearing a pink apron and wig is making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jul 2

SEO was claimed dead in 1997.

web.archive.org/web/19981206...

NONE: ONLINE-ADS>> Search engines are dying

I'm beginning to believe that search engines are a dead-end technology and fretting over where your site comes up is a big waste of time. I'm now advising clients that we create good META tags, submit the site and then forget it.

web.archive.org

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jun 5

certainly not, but I couldn't possibly publish something without something trolly

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Jun 5

cos it's annoying

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Mar 10

so... not new?

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Gary Illyes @methode.bsky.social · Feb 26

WHERE'S THE PROMISED "EDIT" FUNCTION?!?!?!1

wait... wrong twitter

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