Gary 鯨理／경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)

House Elf and Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google. Tentatively active on Mastodon

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Whale, whale, whale... it's come to this. Now trolling on LinkedIn too: https://t.co/phnKW8qWwT

(mostly posting it for @rustybrick)

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@kimuyan ありのままの姿見せるのよ
ありのままの自分になるの
何も怖くない
風よ吹け
少しも寒くないわ

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@Naomiit14

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@patrickstox I shouldn't have said that... I definitely shouldn't have said that

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@Naomiit14 alright

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@Naomiit14

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@mikefutia @glenngabe yes

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@si1very @Making8 @searchmartin @JohnMu @googlesearchc @Google You summoned me?

We do indeed sitemap files sometimes, mostly when someone links to them for whatever reason. If you don't like to see them in the results, add the noindex header Martin suggested.

PS welcome to my daily Twitter digest

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@andrea_moro @rustybrick like, random one-off crawls we used to do for learning something. Wanna learn how many sites *require* an accept language request header? run a crawl job. This used to be with googlebot, now it's gonna be with GoogleOther.
Please don't overthink it, it's really that boring.

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@mobilanyheter @JohnMu @dannysullivan can't speak for the other two gents, but I spend about an hour every week lurking in the webmaster forums, yeah

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@rustybrick Good news! You're in my daily roundup!

Just wanted to reiterate that no one should ever rely on this. We can only ever discover one URL with this method and it's way, way more likely we'd crawl that one URL if you'd seeded it through Search Console for example. so just don't

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@RyanJones @JohnMu thanks again for the report. this should be fixed now

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@RyanJones @JohnMu thanks. let the team know

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@hellemans it's a bit more subtle than "news doesn't render". when you need to index fast, you need to have tighter deadlines and that might mean, for example, that we end up with the raw HTML in serving for a few minutes. It she's eventually fixes itself, but still

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@RyanJones I do 👀

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@rustybrick @RyanJones @JohnMu also why this tweet was sent to me as THE daily summary is a mystery

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@rustybrick @RyanJones @JohnMu This was more like "raters rate the changes, not sites", eg raters don't tinker with the algorithm knobs

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@info4u2use Yeah, we did use it a while back, we even pulled some of it for display on search results, but things change

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@JohnMu @jdevalk @facan Just to be clear about the rationale behind that new doc: we got documentation feedback asking for an example of combining extensions. That's the only reason we added that new doc.
Long term I have no problems with working together to improve the sitemaps protocol, just not now