How does merging results from multiple search engines impact crawl budget?
I found this patent about merging result lists from several search engines at once. If Google or another major search engine uses this, does it affect how often pages get crawled or indexed from different sources? Wondering if having content show up in multiple indexes ends up wasting crawl budget on duplicates.
Asked by norman.young
1 Answer
Merging search results from different engines doesn't really impact Google's crawl budget for your site. Google's crawl budget is based on your site authority, size, update frequency, and server response, not on whether your content appears in other indexes or meta search engines. If the same content is duplicated across different domains, Google might crawl all those domains but it's not 'wasting' your crawl budget for your original site. Just make sure you're using canonical tags if you syndicate your content, so Google knows which version is primary. The patent sounds more about how results are displayed to users than about crawling in the first place.