Crawling smarter, not harder

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 

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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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