About Us

Search Engine Basics started with a simple frustration: most explanations of how Google works are written for people who already understand SEO. If you’re a true beginner, that’s not much help. We built this site to close that gap, one plain English page at a time.

Founded in 2010, Codespot began as a small team of tech enthusiasts with a vision to redefine digital experiences through innovation, collaboration, and reliable development expertise.

Who We Are

This site is run by a small editorial team with a background in web publishing and search optimization. We’re not a marketing agency trying to sell you a service, and we’re not a tool vendor pushing a product. We write because clear information about something this common, used billions of times a day, shouldn’t require a technical degree to understand.

Some of us have spent years watching Google Search Console data shift after a core update, testing how pages get crawled, and reading Google’s own Search Central documentation line by line. That hands on experience shapes how we explain things here. We’d rather show you what we’ve actually observed in search results than repeat a definition we found somewhere else.

Why This Site Exists

Our mission is narrow on purpose: teach search engine basics to people who have never heard the term “SERP” before, without talking down to them and without burying them in jargon. We cover how crawling, indexing, and ranking actually work, how search engines have changed since the 1990s, and how newer features like AI Overviews are reshaping what a search result even looks like in 2026.

We don’t sell SEO services, and nothing on this site is paid placement. If we link to a tool or another resource, it’s because it genuinely helped us understand or verify something, not because of a partnership.

How We Keep Content Accurate

Search engines change constantly, so a page that was accurate last year can be wrong today. Our review process works like this:

  1. We check claims against Google’s own Search Central documentation before publishing.
  2. We revisit pillar pages after major algorithm updates to confirm nothing has shifted underneath us.
  3. We mark statistics with their source and the date they were gathered, because market share and click behavior figures are a snapshot, not a permanent fact.
  4. When something is genuinely unknown, such as the exact thresholds Google’s spam detection systems use, we say so instead of guessing.

We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we correct the page and note the update.

Get in Touch

Have a correction, a question, or a topic you wish we covered? Visit our Contact page and send us a note. We read every message.