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Gary Illyes

@methode.bsky.social

Google's house elf

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fine

30.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

can we stop now

30.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

not particularly, no

29.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Update on the Autocomplete API  |  Google Search Central Blog  |  Google for Developers

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

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

20.09.2025 03:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Ask me how it's going at the Shenzhen SEO Conference.

19.09.2025 06:53 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 6    📌 1
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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.

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/...

08.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

28.08.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I do

28.08.2025 13:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Crawler best practices This document describes best pratices for web crawlers.

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...

20.08.2025 10:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That explains my mental state

13.08.2025 18:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A valid HTML zip bomb | Hacker News

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

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

13.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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"

04.08.2025 22:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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...

04.08.2025 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

31.07.2025 01:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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.

29.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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 .

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

27.07.2025 07:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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.

SEO was claimed dead in 1997.

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

02.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

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

05.06.2025 15:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

cos it's annoying

05.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

so... not new?

10.03.2025 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

wait... wrong twitter

26.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

mostly RAG. Why?

05.02.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

technically defined as a string of bytes.

05.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it's just software so I'm sure it's defined.

05.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

yes

ps: thank you

05.02.2025 16:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we purposefully don't define "significant", or so I think anyway. in my view, changing the actual content is significant, but iirc johnmu would also add schema and linking changes. however I'm pretty sure we both agree that changing the copyright date is not significant.

05.02.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you're supposed to put all points in one tweet so I can say "yes".

05.02.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

that's just like your opinion dude

05.02.2025 15:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, I have feelings, too!

05.02.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

better

05.02.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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