Sep 24, 2025 — I am an Analyst at Google. I live in Zürich. I help you make sense of Google's technical infrastructure related to Search. My unofficial job is explaining why and how the internet and search works, and why JavaScript is the devil reincarnate.
Documents I helped write because we needed rules. I like rules.
robots.txt. We finally wrote it down after 25 years of people guessing how it worked.
Catch me at Search Central Live, various search conferences, or SEO meetups. I usually talk about Google's crawling, indexing, and serving infrastructure. And internet infrastructure. I like the internet.
Common questions I get asked on Twitter/X/Mastodon so you don't have to ask them again.
Before you ping me, please read the documentation. It was written with love and tears. Mostly tears. Except the podcast. We don't write the podcast most of the time.
LinkedIn: Gary Illyes (1x week)
Mastodon: @methode (1x month)
Email: Please don't.