Category: Google Search Engine

Google is sending out notifications to webmasters if they are running TLS 1.1 or lower. The notification isn’t that Google search will rank the site lower or delist the site but rather Chrome, Google’s browser will show a “not secure” warning to user…

We knew it was coming and now it is live, well, almost fully live. Google is now officially rolling out the favicons and black ad label search interface on desktop. Google has been testing it for months and months on desktop after it launched in mobil…

Google’s featured snippets and people also ask (PAA) is a place many SEOs look to for optimization techniques. Brian Freiesleben noticed that Google is showing in some PAAs Google is showing a note that the answer give is “summarized from table” and l…

Technically user comments in search is a feature from 2018 specifically for live sporting events and games. But now, as I reported at Search Engine Land, Google is testing it for live TV shows as well. Niki Mosier spotted it and posted this screen sh…

There has been a string of articles in the past few weeks about Google not being the same company it use to be. The culture, the strive, the attitude and passion, the do no evil, seems to have somewhat gone out of the window. I don’t have any inside in…

Brian Freiesleben posted a screen shot, that I can replicate on mobile, of Google adding to a snippet “list includes.” Google is showing the listed items but titling those lists in the snippet with “list includes.” This is not on desktop, but right now…

Google may be testing allowing mobile searches using image search to jump from page to page of the search results instead of the infinite scroll. Bhumika Kateliya posted this screen shot on Twitter of Google Images results on mobile having a page 2 b…

Glenn Gabe was scrolling through his Google Discover feed over the weekend and Google knew that Glenn didn’t get enough of his Barry fix and decided to show him one of my recent Cameos by Google posts. Yes, Google can show video answer cameos in the Go…

Emily Perry shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new Google featured snippet test. In this interface, Google shows the main featured snippet but below it has a section with “see what others say” and then lets you click on an accordion interfac…

John Mueller from Google gave one of the clearest and easiest to understand explanations on how Google uses machine learning in web search. He basically said Google uses it for “specific problems” where automation and machine learning can help improve…

Yesterday, I got my invite to Cameos on Google. Cameos on Google “help you make your Knowledge Panel even more engaging for your fans. You can record video answers to the questions your fans are asking on Google, and those answers will appear in your K…

Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout that Googlers, at many levels, not just the elite set at the top, can debug the search algorithm. He said “Also the meta question here does anyone really know how the algorithm works. And that is somet…

Google has put up its decorations for the holidays, at least in the desktop and mobile search results. If you search for [christmas],[chanukah], and [kwanzaa] you will see animated decorations and themes in the search results interface.

Google announced some new features around Google News and Top Stories. First, now Google is using BERT and other machine learning techniques to examine the related articles and determine where one story ends and another begins. Second, Google no long…

Just like Google definitions and dictionary results can now show photos, so can Google Translate results in search show photos. Brian Freiesleben posted an example on Twitter and it works for me as well.

Google is testing an early adopter program to let shipping companies like UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and others integrate their tracking data with the search company. This would allow Google to show the status of the package directly in search, as opposed t…

Google posted on their Google Webmaster YouTube channel a nice very clear and simple beginner video on how Google Search works as it relates to how you, webmasters, can make your web sites better. This might be one of those videos you share with new, n…

Google Image Search has dropped the custom date range filter when you try to filter by time. This seems to have been removed a few months ago, so this is not “new” but I missed reporting this. Now you can only filter images by the past 24 hours, past…

The eagle-eyed Sergey Alakov spotted Google testing a taller, more spacious, Google mobile search results user interface. There is simple more vertical space between the search results. Here is a side by side comparison so you can see yourself.
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It is the Friday after Thanksgiving, so let’s have some fun. I ran a very scientific, statistically accurate, and unequivocally clear survey on Twitter (sarcasm) asking which Googler would win an SEO contest. The winner of the poll was John Mueller!
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