Day 2 · Thursday 1 October 2026
Indexing
23 sessions and 970 claims from Thursday 1 October 2026.
- Sessions
- 23
- Claims
- 970
- Confirmed or consistent
- 381
- Not in docs
- 217
Agenda
- 10:00
Checkin and Networking
- 10:15
Welcome to indexing day!
Gary Illyes, Cherry Prommawin, Search Relations
Presented by Gary Illyes and Cherry Prommawin (named in the host's hand-over; turns not attributable). Highly rated Slido questions skipped on Day 1 for lack of time: four on slides with written answers, one more (sloppy migrations) only spoken, then a recap of Day 1. Transcript from a second attendee recording.
- 10:25
How is HTML interpreted
Cherry Prommawin, Search Relations
Speaker from a back-reference in a later talk ('Cherry already talked about the page ... main content'), heard in a second attendee recording. The author's recording starts mid-talk, so the opening is from slides only.
- 10:30
Controlling indexing
John Mueller, Search Relations Team Lead
Named on the title slide. The first recording stops mid-sentence at the closing slide; a second, independent recording covers the end of the talk (robots.txt and robots meta rules, robots meta tags and JavaScript).
- 10:40
Lightning session D: Rendering and JavaScript
Erin Sparling, Sören Bendig, Rebecca Yu, Natalia Venditto
Four parts: a short Google opener by Erin Sparling (Partner Technology Manager, Google), then community talks by Sören Bendig (CEO, Audisto) on rendering blind spots, Rebecca Yu (SEO Manager, JAKALA) on debugging JavaScript rendering, and Natalia Venditto (Principal Software Engineer, Adobe) on Web Fragments.
- 11:15
What is Google friendly JavaScript
Erin Sparling, Partner Technology Manager
Same speaker as the opener of Lightning session D.
- 11:30
Understanding what's on a page
Gary Illyes, Search Relations
Speaker from the author's recording label. Opened with Slido quiz questions, then the part on main content, which only a second attendee recording captured.
- 11:55
Handling web duplication
John Mueller, Search Relations Team Lead
Speaker from the next talk's back-reference ('pick up where John left off with the canonical links'), heard in a second attendee recording.
- 12:05
Lightning session E: Managing Duplicates and Site Moves
Tobias Schwarz, Martyna Ağanoğlu, David Carrasco Pamies
Three community talks: broken canonical graphs (Tobias Schwarz, CTO and Founder, Audisto); consolidating two competing loan-comparison sites into one brand (Martyna Ağanoğlu, SEO Specialist, Loando / Clar); the decisions behind a multi-site migration after an acquisition (David Carrasco Pamies, SEO Consultant, Magnify). Speakers from on-stage introductions and the official speaker list; talks 2 and 3 are only in the second attendee recording.
- 12:30
Lunch
- 13:30
Finding the gold nuggets: structured data, media, and more!
Gary Illyes, Search Relations
Short introduction to feature extraction (structured data, images, video). Introduced by name by the host and named again in the hand-over at the end of the next talk.
- 13:35
What is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.
Ryan Levering, Software Engineer
Named in the previous speaker's hand-over ('Ryan is going to talk about how we are actually dealing with structured data'), heard clearly in a second attendee recording; he said he has been a software engineer at Google for about 15 years, focused on data ingestion.
- 13:50
Using images to your advantage and Engaging Search users with videos
Gary Illyes, Search Relations
Introduced by name by the previous speaker. The author's recording stops partway through the list of video SEO factors; a second attendee recording covers the rest of the talk (video factors, formats, discovery, robots controls, AI-generated images).
- 14:00
Lightning session F: Media
a community speaker, Patrick Domanico
Two community talks, captured by a second attendee recording: rewriting image alt text with an LLM through a crawler (speaker not named) and 'prompt journalism' (Patrick Domanico, Technical SEO Manager & Freelance Journalist, dentsu: hand-over 'Patrick', the only Patrick on the official speaker list).
- 14:15
- 14:30
Lightning session G: Internationalisation
Alizée Baudez, a second community speaker
Alizée Baudez (International SEO Consultant) on language, region and authority, named from her self-introduction, which matches the official speaker list; then Zahra Laleh's talk on non-Latin scripts, presented on her behalf by a colleague who was not named; a second attendee recording covers the rest of that talk.
- 14:45
Poster session H: Indexing
Community speakers
Poster session on the floor; a second attendee recording captured only the host's introduction and the list of poster topics.
- 15:25
Break
- 15:30
- 15:40
- 15:50
Lightning session J: Indexing and Troubleshooting
Community speakers
Nothing captured; speakers unknown.
- 16:00
- 16:15
How does the index look like?
Google
The speaker refers back to the earlier talk on tokenization (Understanding what's on a page). No slides were photographed.
- 16:20
Google Trends
Omri Weisman, Engineering Manager, Google Trends
Speaker matched from his self-introduction to the official speaker list. No slides were photographed.
- 16:45
- 17:25
- Time not recorded
Day 2, session not recorded
Points whose session is not known. Every Day 2 recording and photo is assigned to a session, so none so far.