Hands up if you're using Bert, Bart, and Bard interchangeably when casually chatting about Mom... MUM?
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Gary Illyes
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House Elf and Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google.
John MuellerWe regularly (enough) run into CDNs that return 403/404/410 on DDOS interstitials. Returning a normal HTTP error code when the site is overloaded will result in those pages dropping out of the search results. Make sure any interstitial you use (or your CDN uses) returns 429 or 503 instead.
More:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/dont-404-my-yum
Note to self: get an "I'm trolling" sign AND USE IT
Rumor has it I've been already laid off. Rumor is false: we, the search relations team, still don't know what's gonna happen, when, or to whom, so we're working normally, focusing on projects that we think we can deliver fast and will help the most externally.
That's it, goodbye, and don't believe everything you read on the internet.
A Search Central video series titled Sherlog's Deductions from Shared Logs where @johnmu is wearing a Sherlock's hat and pipe, and analyzes access logs you sent in:
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who is @johmu
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If you care about Googlebot/Bingbot/otherBot visiting your site and you're using solutions like CDN or f5, you should make a habit of going through every now and then the automatically generated firewall rules generated by some of these solutions. Sometimes they perceive crawler traffic as malicious and block it.
Did you ever buy links because a certain googler who we'll not name, but his name starts with a "G" and ends with "ary", said at a conference you should buy links?
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Grumpary is not a real name
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The story of Googlebot and the cats ...
