To provide a cleaner and more consistent search experience, we're changing how some rich results types are shown in Google's search results. In particular, we're reducing the visibility of FAQ rich results, and limiting How-To rich results to desktop devices.

We now support sitenames for subdomains on all devices in some languages. We also updated how the site names system works, to increase its ability to make selections that are representative of sites listed in search results.

It’s been about a month since Search Central Live Tokyo concluded and about 2 weeks since SCL Jakarta! Looking back at the events makes us happy; it’s really great to be back and meet people in person! But let's ponder what we learned.

The Sitemaps Protocol was introduced in 2005 to help search engines with the discovery of new URLs, and also to help with scheduling new crawls of already discovered URLs. It's a wildly popular protocol that hasn't changed for over 15 years. While the general idea is still useful, some aspects have become less practical in today's internet.

To that end, we're announcing deprecation of the sitemaps 'ping' endpoint and providing additional recommendations for the use of the lastmod element.

Today, we launched a new user feedback form for reporting quality issues for sites. In this post we will take a look at some of the new form's features.

In order to help you better understand issues with video indexing, Search Console will start reporting more specific issues with clear actions to help you make your videos more prominent on Search.

A few weeks back, we announced that Search Central Live is coming to a few locations in Asia Pacific throughout 2023. If you speak Indonesian fluently and are interested, Search Central Live Jakarta is happening on July 12, 2023!

In this post, we discuss tips to help you take advantage of the Search Console bulk data exports without incurring significant cost in BigQuery.

To better surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and News, today we're introducing a system called topic authority that helps determine which expert sources are helpful to someone’s newsy query in certain specialized topic areas, such as health, politics, or finance.

Search Central Live is back in Asia Pacific throughout 2023 and we can’t wait to meet you in person! We're now ready to bring the events to more locations in the Asia Pacific region. Specifically, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan are on our list.