Category: Google Search Engine

Google News has supposedly made it harder to become a Google News news source. John Mueller of Google said he knows that Google News applications have to go through a stricter process to get accepted these days. He said the bar has been set higher, w…

Google has been hosting webmaster conferences all over the place, espesially in India and other regions where you cannot find many SEO type conferences. Well, that is now changing with Google hosting a Google Webmaster Conference at the GooglePlex, in…

We’ve seen variations of Google showing image carousels in the featured snippet position, but this one seems new. If you search for [seo checklist] you may see a featured snippet that also shows an image carousel that lets you click on the images to s…

Google’s John Mueller said the Google search team is investigating spikes in Search Console impressions for specific queries. In fact, it seems like Google Trends was showing that spike in those queries as well, so it might be some sort of Google bug …

Google is testing showing colorful dots, a blue, red, yellow and green set of dots, to help users understand different search result elements. When you click on the dots, it launched an “about this result” box to help you understand what that search fe…

Google seems to be testing a new design interface for the Google desktop search results. Here Google is filling in the white space you normally see on the left and right side of the desktop search results with more options. On the left side you see mo…

Google now has to comply with the new French law and remove snippets from their search results for European press publications. Google wrote about it in French over here. With that, some publishers are getting notified of this removal via Search Cons…

The problem with having comments on a blog is that anyone can pretend to be anyone and say anything they want. It is why most blogs removed comments, outside of all the spam you need to manage. We have an issue here with someone claiming (not even cl…

Google’s John Mueller hinted a couple years ago that Google may decide to translate knowledge panels and/or featured snippets in other languages when applicable. I have not seen this happen until today when Gianluca Fiorelli shared this happening to h…

Google now lets you pin the live scores to the search results. When a Rugby game is going on, you can click on the “pin live score” button and then drag that overlay anywhere you want on the Google search results screen.

Google is testing showing 3 and a half stories in the top stories carousel in search. We’ve seen tons of top stories user interfaces over the years and I believe I’ve seen this as well, but I can’t find if I covered it before. So here it is.

Go to Google.com and just type into the search box “what” and you will see Google suggest the search phrase what does the antsð¡ð mean. This is no joke, here is a screen shot I took of it myself.

I think this is new, a new way to report images as being offensive or having issues in Google’s main web search results. Sunny sent this to me on Twitter and I think it is new, but basically there is a “report images” button that when you click it, it…

In the past 24 hours or so, I had numerous reports sent to me that searchers are seeing only URLs for the Google search results snippets. The title and description portion of the snippets were missing.

Amit Singh shared a screen video capture of a new form of video results in the mobile Google search results. This one shows a video result with a section named “in this video.” The “in this video” section gives you a timeline in the video of what is be…

The folks at RankRanger are showing data that on average, the title tag length shown in the Google desktop search results have gone down from 55.3 characters to 50.9 characters on average.

To be honest, I am not sure if this is new, but I am being told this is new. The first is what looks like an organic product grid, where Google shows product selections for a query in a new grid like format. The second are paid Google shopping ads th…

Eric Hedekar from Moz, formerly STAT, said that now about half of the videos shown in the Google mobile results have changed in terms of how they are displayed. Instead of the carousel video format, Google is showing more of a list view according to Er…

Google is testing a vertical bar or vertical line next to the search results snippets when you hover your mouse over the snippet. Mordy Oberstein said this was spotted by Shay Harel, the Founder/CEO of RankRanger.

Bing seems to be testing a new design and layout for the search results snippets. The new layout looks like a carousel of tabs that you can horizontally scroll through when looking at a specific search result. Here is a screen shot from @Philcomputi…