Category: Google Search Engine

Google is testing letting searchers in specific countries filter Google News to only show news from their country. Here is a screen shot of Google testing this from Bapun Raz as he shared with me on Twitter.

It has bothered me for the past several years now that it seems both Google and the mainstream media treat Google’s main revenue driver, main product and service in such an underrepresented manner. I see media and Google talk about almost everything G…

Gary Illyes of Google spent a nice amount of time talking in the last Search Off The Record podcast about information retrieval. If you have not read anything in-depth about this topic, I highly recommend you listen to what Gary said.

There is a heck of a lot going on here with this Google knowledge panel. If you search for [amish] on mobile and see the “people also search for” section and then click on the “more” link, you are taken to this scrollable carousel unit with more optio…

The other day we saw Google testing a magnifying glass in the bottom right footer of the mobile search results. Now I am seeing Google test an arrow up, that when clicked on, jumps the searcher to the top of the page to conduct another search as well.
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Google on mobile search has a new box for “browse more ideas” for some queries. This box shows is a fancy query refinement to get you to do more searches to refine your query to something more specific.

Google is testing search refinement bubbles and selectors in the people also ask area of the search results. So the people also ask box comes up and then you can refine those options by clicking on the search refinement bubbles.

Only nine months ago, Google tested a feature to show a graphic behind the Google search box header, that was customized based on your query. So if you searched for [flowers], Google would show an image of flowers as the header for Google Search. Googl…

Here is a good line from Google’s John Mueller who responded to someone asking for less algorithmic updates; he said “here’s a secret: there will never be stability, unless someone turns off the internet.”

Google is testing a new carousel in the search results titled “trending searches.” This shows a carousel with images and query refinements based on your original query – that may show what searches related to your original query are trending.

Google is testing displaying a magnifying glass that overlays on the right bottom section of the mobile search results. When you scroll through the mobile search results, this magnifying glass icon shows up that you can click on to refine your query.
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If you search for [seo] and look at the knowledge panel on the right, you will see a section that says “Monthly cost: $2819 per month.” That links to an SEO company’s SEO packages page but it makes it looks like the monthly cost for SEO is that fee, no…

Valentin Pletzer noticed that Google has been testing replacing the “people also ask” header on the search feature with a “learn more” header. I shared his screenshot he shared on Twitter below. At the same time, I have been hearing reports that Goog…

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering at Google where he leads teams working on Lens, AR, and Consumer Shopping, told me that Google Image Search and Google Lens are coming “closer together soon.” This was after I failed at using a reverse image search featur…

Martin Splitt from Google said something I found very interesting in his video hangout from the other day. At the 25 minute mark, Martin said that his team technically now is “not supposed to know much about ranking.” Historically the team did, but no…

In April we saw Google testing a new related search box named more specific searches. Now, we are seeing Google test an expandable version of the more specific searches.

Google is testing or rolling out a new feature for its featured snippets section named “also covered on this page.” Google is adding below the main featured snippet, other topics the page covers, that hyperlink, anchor you down and then highlight that…

Google announced that the Google News Showcase feature is coming to desktop in eight countries (not the US). Google launched last October and News Showcase allows publishers can curate content using timelines, bullets and related articles.

Google may be testing a new feature in search for its featured snippets and knowledge panels to read the content of that snippet to you. Manikandan shared a screenshot with me on Twitter of Google Search showing a button that reads “hear this out loud”…

If you search for [pfizer mrna] on Google Search on your desktop, you won’t see any free organic listings. At least I cannot and many others cannot see any results. I do seem them on mobile but only after I click on the “more results” button, but that …