In the last Google Search Console training video series of the year, Daniel Waisberg of Google brought in a special guest, the Engineering lead for Search Console – Hillel Maoz. In this video they discuss a bit of what happens behind the scenes.

Here is the video:

The two of them explain how the team is structured and how the team structures its development. Here is a bit of an outline of what they spoke about:

Search Analytics
Click and Impressions Data
Stores Data for 16 Months
Mostly visible in Performance report
Reporting
How Google Sees Your Pages
Crawl Errors
Structured Data Issues
Debug, fix and inform Google of fixes
Debugging Tools like URL Inspection Tool
Configuration
Site management
User Configuration
Site Verification
Data Security
Email Notification & Communication

On the Search Console Development time:
Define what can help a page succeed in search
Classify all the pages in the Google index and annotate any issues
Help site owners to fix their web sites

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