Category: Google Search Engine

So I did an SEO Mythbusting video with Martin Splitt of Google way back last November. I posted the vlog I did with him minutes prior to recording this SEO mythbusting segment. They went well together.

Earlier this week we spotted Bing testing a toggle switch to open links in new tab and now we are seeing Google test a toggle switch to open results in a new tab. Coincidence?

Google is testing a search results layout and interface that is more spaced out and has more open white space. Google has tested variations of this over the years but here is a screen shot from Shalom Goodman that he posted on Twitter of this test happ…

With the release of iOS 14 last week for iPhones and iPads, you can now add home screen widgets to your device. So the Google Search app has added support for the a Google Search Home Screen Widget on iOS 14.

John Vantine shared a screen shot of Google showing an “online therapy” box in the search results that helps you find options for therapy that is covered by your insurance. I can replicate, so it does seem to be live, at least in the US.

Google said by the end of this month you will need to control global product availability in your product feed. You can apply the shipping attribute to products directly in the feed or specify countries by using the “additional countries” feature. This…

Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. Google wrote “today we’re announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over HTTP/2 for select sites.”

Looks like Google may be testing (I think again) the knowledge panel box in the middle of the search results. Saijo George posted a video screencast of this in action, but here is a screen shot:

Google has a new easter egg for Google Search, this one is for a search on [fresh prince of bel air]. The logo changes to the logo above, a Google graffiti logo. And then the whole interface changes to old school, 1990s…

Google is asking some searchers with some queries to “verify the facts to help others.” Brian Freiesleben shared an example of this on Twitter this morning and Mordy Oberstein shared on Twitter a couple months ago. It seems to be on some knowledge pan…

Google is testing new user interfaces, designs and layouts for the product one box and product boxes. Valentin Pletzer shared a couple of these designs on Twitter and I am able to replicate one of these.

In February, Google added a new licensable badge for image search as a beta while it tested out new structured data markup. Well, now after months of testing, this new feature is live and images using this markup can see the licensable badge in the Goo…

If you search for [is Google down], Google will show you an answer, like it does often with other answer based queries, to tell you “no.” I guess if Google is able to give you an answer here, by definition Google is not down.

Here is yet another Google related search user interface that Google is testing. We’ve seen several so far, so I will list them all below again, but this new one is where Google is just shading in the magnifying glass icon and not the query with it.
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Yesterday in the Google Webmaster Virtual Unconference I asked a Google representative to guess on what percentage of the Google support documents were updated in a proactive way versus a reactive way. The Googler said 60-80% of the time, the docs are…

Could you imagine if Google charged a fee for you to enter a query into its search box? Back in the old days, you had to purchase a license to search librarian databases (maybe even today). But imagine if Google charged a fee, like a toll booth, to t…

Here is a newish video carousel look that Valentin Pletzer spotted in the Google mobile search results. It is like the image carousel you see in some search result snippets but with videos, in this case, TikTok video clips.

As you know, the Google virtual webmaster “unconference” is taking place today. It was sold out within a few hours after it launched and thus Google promised to hold a more formal virtual conference to fit more people later this year. Google also brie…

Kevin Webster shared this screen shot of a Google search result snippet. The snippet says “4 topics include” and then shows those four topics. It pulled from the header tags on the page he said. I think this specific snippet is newish but Google has b…

There is this Reddit thread asking if you blindly believe and follow what John Muller of Google says. So John actually shared this thread on Twitter and added Twitter poll asking the question. I reshared it, as did dozens of others and there are thous…