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Vibe Coding - yay or nay? - Transcript
Vibe Coding - yay or nay?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin Splitt and John Mueller from Google's Search Relations team dive deep into the world of AI-assisted development. They explore the reality of "Vibe…
How AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO - transcript
How AI Is Changing Google Search and SEO
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin speaks with Nikola Todorovic (director of Software Engineering at Google Search) about how AI is changing Google Search. They discuss the evolution…
Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery - transcript
Analysing Robots.txt at scale with HTTP Archive and BigQuery
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary turn a simple robots.txt question into a data‑driven deep dive using HTTP Archive, WebPageTest, custom JavaScript metrics, and BigQuery. They…
Are websites getting "fat"? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained - transcript
Are websites getting "fat"? Page weight, HTML size & Googlebot limits explained
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary and Martin dig into what "page size" and "page weight" actually mean for developers, users, and search engines. They discuss exploding web page sizes:…
Google crawlers behind the scenes - transcript
Google crawlers behind the scenes
Developers often talk about Googlebot as if it were a single program you could just run as "googlebot.exe", but that is not how Google's crawling actually works. In this episode of Search Off the…
How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) - transcript
How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)
Martin and Gary unpack how HTML parsing really works, why the HTML standard is so lenient, and how messy markup can silently break key SEO signals like hreflang and rel=canonical. They revisit…
Do You Still Need a Website in 2026? (Transcript)
Do You Still Need a Website in 2026?
In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Google Search Relations team tackle a deceptively simple question: do you still need a website in 2026? Starting from the recurring…
Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us - Transcript
Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.
Join Martin and Gary as they dive into Search Off the Record's Episode 103, unpacking the 2025 Year-End report on crawling issues. Discover fascinating insights on faceted navigation, action…
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SEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs
In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan continue their conversation about the changing landscape of Search. They discuss the practicalities of hiring an SEO professional in the age of AI: Do…
Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI, part 1
In this episode, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan talk about SEO and the new kids on the block: AIO, GEO and others. Danny shares how these things interact with each other and what he thinks website…
S1E100 How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development
Celebrate the 100th episode of Search Off the Record with Martin, Lizzi, Cherry, John and Gary as they revisit memorable moments, touching on a bunch of topics. This special episode touches on…
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