Google On Difference Between Clustering & Canonicalization – Search Engine Roundtable
Google’s John Mueller explained the difference between clustering and canonicalization within Google Search. He said, “Clustering is basically taking the pages that we think are the same. And then canonicalization is, from those pages, which one is the best one.” John said this at the 3:03 minute mark of the interview.
This came up in the excellent Search Off The Record interview of Allan Scott from the Google Search team, who works specifically on duplication within Google Search. Martin Splitt and John Mueller from Google interviewed Allan.
Allan explained at the beginning of the video, “when people think canonicalization, they sort of imagine this one black box that does all the magic things together. And it’s very difficult to handle requests from people that are like, “Well, why is canonicalization wrong?” And so I tend to push people to think of it as, well, canonicalization is one step. It’s I have a bunch of URLs, and I want to know which of them is the canonical, but there…
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