Some key insights from reading Google’s May 2025 Search Central blog post.
Author: Joe Friedlein
RAF scholar, PwC accountant, web 1.0 veteran - I have been there, got the T-shirt and am now the office's resident geriatric.
Having been involved with the web since the days of 'new media', I fell in love with search & founded Browser Media in 2005.
Outside work, I seem to spend most of my life chaperoning two young aspiring Andy Murrays.
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