With Shopify and Milestone Inc. now supporting IndexNow, and Amazon preparing to adopt in the coming weeks, the protocol is transforming how content is discovered, shared, and surfaced online. In this quarter’s IndexNow update, we highlight recent integrations and the growing role IndexNow plays in modern content discovery.
IndexNow is emerging as a core mechanism for keeping the web fresh, responsive, and reliably up to date. By allowing websites to instantly notify search engines of new, changed, and deleted content, IndexNow accelerates indexing and reduces reliance on traditional crawl schedules. It’s a modern solution for keeping the web fresh, and one that gives publishers more control over how quickly their content is discovered.
What makes IndexNow so compelling for organizations driving innovation in search, content delivery, commerce, and digital infrastructure?
Amazon: Using IndexNow to Support Fresher, More Relevant Search Experiences
As one of the world’s most scaled and complex web platforms, Amazon requires fast, accurate content updates to support services that rely on timely information. Amazon plans to begin adopting IndexNow in mid-June, enabling its systems to more efficiently detect changes across the web—helping reduce unnecessary crawling and keeping its infrastructure aligned with the most current content available.
Key advantages of IndexNow for large-scale platforms like Amazon include:
- Immediate visibility into web content changes, allowing for faster updates to search and knowledge systems.
- Improved efficiency, with less redundant crawling and faster response to relevant updates.
- Better collaboration with the web, giving publishers a simple, standardized way to signal content changes.
By enabling faster awareness of content changes across the web, IndexNow helps large-scale platforms—including Amazon—deliver more timely, relevant information while reducing the need for resource-heavy crawling.
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Shopify: Accelerating Growth for Online Sellers Through Instant Visibility
As one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms, Shopify empowers millions of merchants to build and grow their businesses online. With IndexNow, Shopify store owners can now get their products, promotions, and updates seen faster by search engines — helping them reach customers at the speed of commerce.
For e-commerce ecosystems like Shopify, IndexNow offers important benefits, including:
- Faster Product Discovery: Sellers can notify search engines immediately when adding new products or updating inventory, making it easier for buyers to find fresh listings.
- Enhanced SEO for Merchants: Instant indexing improves organic visibility, giving sellers a competitive advantage in crowded online marketplaces.
- More Efficient Operations: Shopify streamlines search engine communication for its merchants, reducing manual SEO work and technical overhead.
Through real-time indexing, IndexNow helps e-commerce platforms like Shopify empower merchants to gain faster visibility and greater control over how their products are discovered.
Milestone: Enabling Real-Time Indexing for High-Impact Industries
Milestone Inc., a leading provider of digital marketing and CMS solutions, has integrated IndexNow into its SEO-first CMS and Schema Platform to help businesses in high-impact industries like hospitality, eCommerce, and financial services achieve faster, more efficient content indexing. By automatically notifying search engines of content updates, IndexNow ensures that new and modified pages are indexed in near real time, eliminating the lag associated with traditional crawl cycles and helping businesses stay visible when timing matters.
For businesses using platforms like Milestone, IndexNow delivers meaningful benefits, including:
- Instant indexing of new and updated content, allowing businesses to surface time-sensitive information without delay.
- Improved content freshness and visibility, leading to higher organic traffic and better engagement.
- Reduced server load, as fewer redundant crawls are required to keep content current.
- Greater speed-to-market for marketing initiatives, helping businesses stay competitive in fast-moving digital environments.
By streamlining indexing across multiple search engines and removing technical barriers, Milestone’s IndexNow integration gives organizations a scalable, automated way to keep content fresh, discoverable, and impactful.
IndexNow: Charting a New Course for Search and Discovery
With adoption from Amazon, Shopify, and Milestone, IndexNow is becoming foundational to the way search engines keep pace with web changes. It supports real-time product and content discovery, helps surface breaking news faster, and gives publishers a more efficient path to visibility.
By improving indexing speed, IndexNow moves the web closer to real-time discovery—empowering content owners to stay current in a search environment shaped by immediacy and AI.
Stay tuned for future updates as we continue tracking adoption milestones, use cases, and the evolving role of IndexNow in modern search.
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Fabrice Canel
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft AI, Bing
Krishna Madhavan
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft AI, Bing
