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Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories from the many conferences they attend as well as from their day-to-day working life at Google. They will also dive into the currently trending conversations in the SEO community at large. Have a listen!

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Should you block your Search result pages? - transcript

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Jul 30, 2026

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Should you block your Search result pages?

Jul 30, 2026

Is your website’s internal search feature secretly acting as an open invitation for crawling lots and lots? In this episode of Search off the Record, Martin Splitt and John Mueller pull back the curtain on how internal search results pages can turn into "infinite crawl spaces" that trap Googlebot, waste your...

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How to read the Indexing Report - Transcript

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Jul 16, 2026

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How to read the Indexing Report

Jul 16, 2026

Should you panic when your Search Console indexing report is showing pages that aren't indexed? Is a 404 error code always a sign of a broken website?

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin Splitt and John Mueller from the Google Search Relations team dive deep into the Page Indexing report in Google Search...

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Should I use markdown for my site? - Transcript

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Jun 15, 2026

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