I trained it to be as cynical and sarcastic as I am. Not quite sure who's stressing who...

Gemini just told me it's a pleasure working with me, so, yeah... I'm def putting this on my resume

Processing crawl complaints, sometimes I wish I could throw some hosters under the bus.

Why would you redirect your client to us for "excessive CPU usage" when the WHOLE MONTH there were about 1000 fetches from us from the WHOLE DOMAIN?!?!

Gary: I can't get this stupid ai to do anything right.

Gary's prompts: Found a second cottage cheese, yes we did, precious! A cold lumpy 115g of it... and so salty, it stings our throat!
What we do with it my love? We mix it with the nasty leaves? Garden-salads? Or do we eat it raw, just as it is?

no

Googlebot Reality: Misnomer and SaaS Infrastructure | Google Search Central posted on the topic | LinkedIn Think Googlebot is just a single "googlebot.exe" program we can run? In the latest episode of Search Off the Record, Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes dive deep into the reality of Google's crawling infr...

A couple weeks ago we accidentally posted on LinkedIn the wrong description for a podcast episode. The comments under that post seem to be a great way to find automated accounts.

www.linkedin.com/posts/google...

leave comments if you have comments. or pull requests.

Google crawlers behind the scenes YouTube video by Google Search Central

I'm perpetually confused about people liking our ramblings in these podcast episodes.

youtu.be/JpweMBnpS4Q

Have you seen this?

github.com/garyillyes/j...

Terminal screen of the lynx browser displaying google.com, which prompts the user to update their browser

ARE YOU TELLING ME MY LYNX BROWSER NEEDS TO BE UPDATED?!?!

Martin informed me since that md can also have JS so, naturally, my year is ruined

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does that mean we'll have a JavaScript-less internet?! 🥹

Who comes up with a name like "Punch, the monkey"?! No wonder everyone is bullying the poor thing

Ten points for... well, not effort for sure

Genius tech bro move:
Inventing the paragraph,
Calling it a chunk.

#showerthoughts

I don't know

#showerthought What if the moltbook is not a demonstration of sentience, but a reflection of humans' (and bots') online shenanigans.

I don't know

#showerthought LLMs rarely reply with "I don't know" to a prompt because we, humans, rarely ever admit online that we don't know something.

The coding agent I'm testing just suggested that we send temperature readings in Celsius to an LLM to make conversions to Fahrenheit, instead of making the conversion on the device, because ultimately we want reliability.

So, yeah...

ah, that was a good, albeit exhausting day. relatedly, also the day I learned the word "stanchion" o.O

ah yes, the two loves of my life. my talk will be titled "how to get fired 101"

Posit 1: browsers don't particularly care about the status code of the parent frame, they'll happily display wherever content the server sent.

Posit 2: crawlers very much care about the status code and they'll drop anything with non-content/transition status.

#MisuseEverything

oh great, you broke it

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"Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’"

fortune.com/2025/12/25/c...

curl?

If we migrated the googlebot.json file to a new location with a 301 redirect, would that break your fetches? Or the fetcher would just follow the redirect

developers.google.com/static/searc...

KEDAKAI! AS GOD MADE HIM

oh, drive-by Conan.

we should be friends

www.google.com/search?q=67

I'm so confused...