Category: Google Search Engine

The folks at SEMRush spotted Google offering searches tips and tricks for searching when Google has no results to offer the searcher. We spotted Google doing something similar but not without giving that searcher any tips, instead just saying “Hmm… t…

Google is testing a small search results experiment where it is showing an arrow by the title of the snippets in the search results. Sergey Alakov spotted this and shared a screen shot of it on Twitter. Here is that screen shot:

Here are some screen shots form Andrew Nechiporuk on Twitter of new looks for how Google shows weather results in Google search. You can see this one has a large graphic showing it is cold outside and then shows the weather by hour below. Both look d…

Let’s add this to the list of things Google is doing or trying to test, in order to keep the searcher in the Google search results. Google is testing a new preview feature for the recipe results that overlay more details about the steps of a recipe wit…

It looks like Google is starting to add images in its dictionary results in order to not just define a word but also show in photos what that word means. You know what they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, I guess this is Google going…

This morning at Search Engine Land the team and I published a response to the Wall Street Journal’s story on Google Search. You can read my story named Misquoted and misunderstood: Why we, the search community, don’t believe the WSJ about Google searc…

Google is testing displaying results from the same domain name in a box that groups them all together. It doesn’t save that much screen real estate by putting them in the same box, but it does subtly show to the searcher that these results are similar…

Gary Illyes from Google commented on how some publishers are getting insane traffic from Google Discover, the feature where Google shows articles from publishers on its Google.com home page. Gary said on Twitter “I just hope people realize that this m…

Valentin Pletzer spotted Google doing what I think might be a new knowledge panel, one that replaced a featured snippet. This is for a search on holidays. If you search for [holiday 2019] Google doesn’t show you a featured snippet anymore, it shows y…

Gary Illyes from Google clarified on Twitter that the production parser, which Google recently opened sourced for all to see, it different from the parser Google uses in Search Console. So the results might come out differently. What is different, Gary…

Over the past couple of days, Google has been making some noise around health – not just the Fitbit news but around building out a search tool that helps doctors around medical research. The interesting thing is this may expand into a more user focuse…

Google is testing showing images in the local pack that you can scroll through. It is an image carousel in the local pack itself. Here are screen shots from Valentin Pletzer that he shared with me on Twitter.

Google is investigating possible issues with what appears to be broken search operators. Specifically issues with the related search command and also intitle and inurl commands. Danny from Google said he will investigate and try to find out what is go…

Google has had expandable featured snippets officially for over a year now but Google seems to have recently been testing changing the design and layout of those. It is now showing less content in the expandable element. I should note – I personally c…

Previously, I believe, the how search works video that was used on the How Search Works portal at Google was a video created by Matt Cutts on a whiteboard back in 2012. Google has updated that video to be more inline with 2019 standards.

Did you know that the Google knowledge panel can show a countdown widget? Valentin Pletzer showed me a screen shot yesterday of Google counting down to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare release date. Instead of it showing the date, which is October 15,…

As you know, Google had to remove the full snippets from many Google France search results pages. So Google might just show a brief title and then a URL. But the description snippet portion for many sites is gone. It looks weird and Google knows it, …

There was a tweet from Gary Illyes talk at PubCon where he possibly said that Google now monitors social media to find issues with Google search. Here is that tweet paraphrasing what Google’s Gary Illyes said:

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I reported Google was having indexing issues. Google then ultimately confirmed the issue as “slight delays in indexing fresh content.” I reported the issue around 2:30pm yesterday, this was after hours of there being a…

Some SEOs are noticing Google add to their title tags that are displayed in the Google search results snippet’s headline a city name. Lily Ray posted about this on Twitter and said “I’ve seen Google modify title tags many times, but this is the 1st ti…