# Google Search Central

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Updated: 2026-09-20

Google's official source for search crawling, indexing and AI-feature guidance.

Google Search Central publishes the rules, documentation and updates that define how Google crawls, indexes and presents web content, including AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Source: https://developers.google.com/search

Description comes from Google Search Central; image comes from Google's official GitHub organization. Checked September 19, 2026.

## Referenced in 101

- [AI features and your website](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features) ([AEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/aeo)) — Google says the same crawlability, indexability and people-first content foundations apply to AI Overviews and AI Mode; no special AI schema is required.
- [Google Search Essentials](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Technical requirements, spam policies and people-first practices define the eligibility floor; none guarantees ranking.
- [SEO Starter Guide](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Good SEO makes content understandable to search engines and useful to people through clear structure, descriptive language and discoverable links.
- [How Google Search works](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/how-search-works) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Crawling, indexing and serving are separate stages; a page can succeed at one and fail at the next.
- [Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Content should serve an existing audience and demonstrate first-hand purpose, not exist mainly to capture search demand at scale.
- [Spam policies for Google web search](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Scaled content, cloaking, doorway pages, expired-domain abuse and reputation abuse are policy boundaries, not aggressive versions of ordinary optimization.
- [JavaScript SEO basics](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basics) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Google can render JavaScript, but server-visible HTML, stable links and sensible status behavior remain the safest foundation.
- [Search Quality Rater Guidelines](https://guidelines.raterhub.com/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf) ([SEO 101](https://www.lazyweb.com/101/seo)) — Quality raters do not directly rank pages, but their guidelines show the human quality concepts Google's evaluators are trained to assess.

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