Category: Google Search Engine

I believe since December 2020, Google has been testing a dark mode theme in the Google Search results. Now I am seeing Google test a toggle to turn on and off the dark mode theme.

Google Search now can show a countdown timer widget in the movie search results. If you search for some upcoming movies, such as [little nightmares 2] on mobile search, Google will give you a countdown timer as to when it will be released.

Valentin Pletzer noticed Google testing having the related search boxes carousel stick to the top of the mobile search results as you scroll. So those related searches just hang out at the top of the search results even if you scroll past them.
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In the beginning of this year, Google added a page around the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program, that page was recently taken down. Google said it has “removed the page about joining the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program.” It was removed because “the pro…

Some of Google Image search results may show you a notice at the footer of the image results. The notice reads “Information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is constantly evolving. The rest of the results might not be what you’re looking for. See more …

Google is testing a method to compare the set of search results it gives you after you enter a query. Google lets you select a number of search result snippets and compare them.

Google has launched a feature for its search results snippets that show more information about a search result. We saw Google testing this back in 2019 and in 2020 and has decided to launch it in BETA mode for now.

Google is testing another feature for “people also search for,” this one overlays entity information in a popup menu when you hover your mouse over the term. This was spotted by Valentin Pletzer who called this “refinement bubbles within entity popover…

Google’s John Mueller highlighted a document, which he said is not new, but it is useful, named keep redacted information out of Google Search. This document gives you tips on how to help ensure Google does not find this content in the first place and…

So you know, Google is going to slam sites that shift around and end up making you, by accident, click on the wrong spot on the page. It is part of the Page Experience Update’s core web vitals Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric. Well, Google Search …

Here is another variation of product attribute sliders within Google Search. In the screen shot from Brian Freiesleben you will see a “critic ratings” box that shows a scale that says “lower than most” from Bat Digest.

Google released a video talking about search spam and what Google does to protect searches from “spam sites, phishing scams, and other bad actors” trying to get into Google search. One metric that stood out was that Google detected “25 billion spammy p…

So you probably have heard the news that Australia wants Google and other platforms to pay to list search results to news outlets. Well, now, Google has added a large noticeable banner to the top of the search results in Google Australia for any query…

Mark Williams-Cook posted a super interesting example of Google Search showing a different set of ranked results for the same query. The only difference was how the search was conducted. One search was done as a query, typing in the words into the sea…

The same day Google began rolling out its new mobile search design, Google also began testing a new font for its search results. Gemma Fontané notified me of this last Friday and provided side by side comparison screen shots on Twitter.

Back in 2017 we saw Google testing autoplaying video previews in the knowledge panel. Now it seems Google is autoplaying video thumbnails on overlay in the video carousel box in the search results.

In December Google began adding streamed 3D content with AR features for cars. Now, according to Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, said “today, AR just got a lot more real in Search.” He added Google now has “photorealistic 3D models” of s…

On Friday afternoon, Google announced the beginning of the rollout of its new mobile search results design. I now see this new design and I wanted to share some side by side comparisons of the old versus the new design for queries.

William Vambenepe, the head of the Product Management team of Google News, said Google is not just pushing local news in the Google News Showcase feature but also directly in Google Search. He showed an example for a query on [inauguration] where there…

Gary Illyes from Google said in the Search Off the Record podcast that the search company makes efforts to ensure it indexes a diverse set of languages. Gary said that Google is “paying quite a bit of attention into ensuring that every language has th…