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In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, and John Mueller put Large Language Models (LLMs) to the test and compete to create the best social post using generative AI. Listen along as they weigh the pros and cons, assess how accurate the posts are, stumble on some owl facts, and see how Google’s own GenAI tool, Gemini, can be used as a creativity tool.
 
Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr072-transcript 
SEO Starter Guide  → https://goo.gle/42alrmy
rel=prev/next isn't a signal  → https://goo.gle/4aIWz8F
Managing Multi-Regional Sites → https://goo.gle/3J3u5e9
Bubble chart analysis →  https://goo.gle/49q9VW8
 
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
 
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In this episode of Search Off the Record, John Mueller and Lizzi Sassman are joined by Rick Viscomi from the Chrome Web Performance team to discuss the importance of understanding what users seek to accomplish and optimizing accordingly, rather than focusing solely on metric scores. Listen along as the Search team touches on metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and the latest Interaction to Next Paint (INP) as pieces of the pie for a better user experience. 
 
Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr071-transcript 
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals → https://goo.gle/4ar2UW6
Page Experience & Google Search → https://goo.gle/49cEWgm
Rick on X (formerly Twitter)→ https://goo.gle/3PCe4ze 
Core Web Vitals on Stack Overflow → https://goo.gle/4awMqvw
 
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
 
#SOTRpodcast
 
Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Rick Viscomi,
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In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive into crawling the web: what is a web crawler, and how does it really work? Listen along as the Search team is joined by an expert web developer in the SEO community, Dave Smart, for an in-depth and technical discussion of all things crawling, and maybe dispel some myths along the way. 
 
Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr070-transcript 
Managing your crawl budget → https://goo.gle/3IzRZxl
Dave Smart on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3wPSuRA
Tame the Bots → https://goo.gle/4cfCQ1P
Search Central Help Forum → https://goo.gle/sc-forum
Indexing API docs → https://goo.gle/3v8yVU0
 
Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.
 
#SOTRpodcast
 
Speaker: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman
Products Mentioned: Search Off The Record