Spotlight (Mac OS X's search mechanism) can sometimes get stuck in a rut, endlessly indexing attached volumes. This can cause overall system slowness and other issues (in fact, this is a potential ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Google’s latest web indexing system, the tool that pre-scans the entire web to have a ready answer to your search query, promises “50 percent fresher results for web searches.” It’s called Caffeine.

Google has now explained the massive search bug from yesterday was related to an issue with its indexing systems. Google wrote, “On Monday we detected an issue with our indexing systems that affected ...

Google once again said that its indexing systems are completely independent of its ranking updates, like the core update. Gary Illyes from Google said indexing, canonicalization, and those types of ...