The second day of the Google Search Central Live APAC 2025 kicked off with a brief tie‑in to the previous day’s deep dive into crawling, before moving squarely into indexing.
Cherry Prommawin opened by walking us through how Google parses HTML and highlights the key stages in indexing:
- HTML parsing.
- Rendering and JavaScript execution.
- Deduplication.
- Feature extraction.
- Signal extraction.
This set the theme for the rest of the day.
Cherry noted that Google first normalizes the raw HTML into a DOM, then looks for header and navigation elements,…








