Technology

Search Off the Record

by Google

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!

100 episodes

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All Episodes

1

Google crawlers behind the scenes - transcript

0:00 Mar 12, 2026

2

Google crawlers behind the scenes

25:07 Mar 12, 2026

3

How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) - transcript

0:00 Feb 26, 2026

4

How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)

32:32 Feb 26, 2026

5

Do You Still Need a Website in 2026? (Transcript)

0:00 Feb 12, 2026

6

Do You Still Need a Website in 2026?

28:27 Feb 12, 2026

7

Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us - Transcript

0:00 Feb 3, 2026

8

Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.

27:45 Feb 3, 2026

9

SOTR102_transcript.pdf

0:00 Jan 8, 2026

10

SEO, AIO, GEO, your site, & third-party support to optimize for LLMs

26:09 Jan 8, 2026

11

Thoughts on SEO & SEO for AI, part 1

37:58 Dec 17, 2025

12

How Search Off the Record tackles SEO and web development

30:55 Oct 30, 2025

13

SOTR100_transcript.pdf

0:00 Oct 30, 2025

14

SOTR099_transcript.pdf

0:00 Sep 4, 2025

15

Optimizing login-page content for Google Search

26:24 Sep 4, 2025

16

Lazy loading demystified

24:31 Aug 21, 2025

17

SOTR098_transcript.pdf

0:00 Aug 21, 2025

18

SOTR097_Transcript.pdf

0:00 Aug 7, 2025

19

SEO for photographers: websites, social media, and Google Search

31:18 Aug 7, 2025

20

How does CSS affect SEO?

38:01 Jul 24, 2025

21

SOTR096_Transcript.pdf

0:00 Jul 24, 2025

22

SOTR095_Transcript.pdf

0:00 Jul 10, 2025

23

SEO for small businesses

29:34 Jul 10, 2025

24

Demystifying SEO for developers

33:23 Jun 26, 2025

25

SOTR094_Transcript.pdf

0:00 Jun 26, 2025

26

What SEOs should know about devs

31:13 Jun 12, 2025

27

SOTR093_Transcript.pdf

0:00 Jun 12, 2025

28

SOTR092_Transcript.pdf

0:00 May 29, 2025

29

How Googlebot crawls the web

32:41 May 29, 2025

30

SOTR091_Transcript.pdf

0:00 May 15, 2025

31

Debugging the Internet: HTTP, TCP, and You

33:25 May 15, 2025

32

Launching Search Central Live Deep Dive

35:51 May 1, 2025

33

How are web standards made?

44:56 Apr 17, 2025

34

SOTR089_Search_Off_the_Record_-_89th_episode_

0:00 Apr 17, 2025

35

Wrapping up 2024

37:52 Dec 30, 2024

36

Handling Dupes - Same Same or Different?

32:30 Dec 5, 2024

37

A discussion of UX for SEO

31:51 Nov 21, 2024

38

Understanding how users experience your website

37:10 Oct 31, 2024

39

Designing Google Doodles and delightful experiences

31:00 Oct 17, 2024

40

Google Search Reliability

36:40 Oct 3, 2024

41

How do I know if my SEO is doing a good job?

37:17 Sep 19, 2024

42

Let's talk shopping markup

28:07 Sep 5, 2024

43

Working With Search Console API

29:50 Aug 22, 2024

44

Crawling smarter, not harder

40:11 Aug 8, 2024

45

Transcript for Crawling smarter, not harder

0:00 Aug 8, 2024

46

Internationalization & hreflang

38:30 Jul 25, 2024

47

Rendering JavaScript for Google Search

25:20 Jul 11, 2024

48

Transcript for Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search

0:00 Jun 27, 2024

49

Inside Search Quality: Using metrics and data science to improve Search

36:23 Jun 27, 2024

50

Cosmic Rays & Crawlers: When Google Search is under the weather

27:24 Jun 6, 2024

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