Google Popular Products Section Gains Videos
Google is testing adding a videos section to the popular products feature in Google Search. Personally, I do not yet see this, but Punit shared screenshots of this on Twitter.
Google Signed Exchanges For Desktop, Top Stories and News Now Live
As you may remember, back in April Google said it is bringing signed exchanges support to desktop. Well that launched on Friday, July 8th. Signed exchanges in Google Search for desktop, top stories, news and more are live.
Google’s Top Ranked SERP Feature Leads To Critic Reviews & Product Review Articles On Mobile
If you’re an e-commerce retailer, or if you provide product reviews, then this latest SERP feature from Google will surely interest you. I recently noticed a ‘Top Ranked’ feature that works in conjunction with Critic Reviews and other product review ar…
Huge Drop In Google People Also Ask
Google seems to be showing the people also ask feature a lot less often now on desktop. According to Semrush and RankRanger, it was at about 60% of queries showing people also ask and now it is closer to 30%.
Google Merchant Center Adds Auto-Tagging For All Free Listings Across All Of Google
Earlier this year, Google Merchant Center added auto-tagging for free listings is now available in your Merchant Center account. But this only worked in the Google Shopping tab, now it works across all Google experiences.
Google Search Console Insights Finally Supports Google Analytics 4
Google Search Console Insights, the cute analytics that joins Search Console and Google Analytics with a goal of making it easy to understand your content’s performance, now works with sites that only use Google Analytics 4 (GA4). This is welcomed new…
Google: Removal Of Nazi Stuff In Google Search Results Is A Priority
Last Thursday, June 30th, a lot of folks across social media began to talk about how a search for [desk ornament] in Google Image Search brought up Swastikas, German Nazi items and more really horrible items. Danny Sullivan from Google escalated the i…
Google’s Interesting Finds SERP Feature Goes Missing From The Search Results – Maybe It Wasn’t Interesting To Users Anymore
It seems that Google’s Interesting Finds feature has been removed from the mobile search results. I’m not sure when it was removed exactly, but the removal could have happened a while ago. I realized this while analyzing the SERPs for several clients t…
Google Highly Rated By Users Search Carousel
Google is testing a new carousel in the mobile search results named “Highly rated by users.” This will show product results that have, um, high ratings from user reviews.
Google Tests Things To Do Overlay Over Search Results
Google is testing a new user interface for the “Things to do” carousel. In this test, Google is overlaying the results on top of the search results, instead of taking you into a new page and set of search results.
Google Auto-Selects Background Colors For Search Result Snippet Images
Over the past few months Google has been auto-selecting background colors not just for image search results and not just for shading Google Shopping Ads but also for images added to the search result snippets in Google Search.
Google Shopping Search Discover Filter For Black, Women, Veteran & Latino Owned Businesses
Google has recently added a new “Discover” filter to the Google Shopping search side bar to filter shopping results by Black-owned, Latino-owned, Veteran-owned or Women-owned businesses. I think this was added at least a few months ago when Google adde…
Google Auto Knowledge Panel Adds Green Font For Hybrid & Electric Vehicles
Google Search has a knowledge panel for automobile and car related searches. If you search for a vehicle where there is an electric and/or hybrid option available, Google will say “hybrid available” and put that font in green.
Google Top Stories Grouped In Topic Sections On Desktop
Google Search is now grouping some of its Top Stories sections for some queries by topics. This was working on mobile for a while but is now reportedly working for the desktop Top Stories Google Search results.
Google Shopping Ads Carousel With Shaded Backgrounds
Google is using a gray shaded background color for some of the results within the Google Shopping Ads carousel. I was able to replicate this, where for some images, Google thinks a light gray background works better than a white background. This is no…
Google Product Grid Results Are Organic & Are Huge
We’ve been seeing a lot of grid-like formats with products and shopping results. We know some are ads and some are organic. John Mueller of Google just added official Google representative confirmation that many of these are organic – if you don’t tru…
Google Tests Expandable Local Related Carousels Within Snippets
Google is testing a search result snippet that shows a expandable drop down menus under the snippet that contains weather, hotels, restaurants, visual stories, events and more. When you click on these expandable menus, you get carousels of search resul…
Google To Pay Wikipedia For Content In Knowledge Panel & Search
A week or so ago, Wikipedia announced Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid service for large organizations who want to repurpose Wikimedia content, to pay for that content. So Google, who repurposes a lot of Wikipedia content, will start to pay for content sh…
Google Tests Rounded Favicons In Mobile Search Results
Google is testing a rounded corner design for the favicons displayed in the mobile search results on snippets. Brodie Clark shared some examples on Twitter saying “On the back of recent testing of favicon sizing on mobile, a rounded version with a gre…
Google Tests Two Rows Of Brand Story Boxes Under A Snippet
I am not even sure what to call this, maybe a brand story snippet, maybe story boxes, I am just not sure. But Google seems to be testing showing two rows of article boxes with images (even including social media sites) about a brand below the brand’s …