An issue prevented people from using many of the features of the “Automations” tab in the Google Home app. Update: This particular issue has now been resolved, but you’ll need to sign in to your ...

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from ...

Google's Jade Wang moved the thread to the top of the forum and is asking users to post more and more examples in the thread in order to take those details to the engineers. Jade wrote: Can you all ...

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Google+ that he sees many large sites lose a ton of their pages in the Google index for misusing 403 status codes when they should be using 503s. He said: We've seen ...