Category: Google Search Engine

Google is testing new search buttons for the search results snippets, including the ability to share a search result snippet with a friend or colleague. The new buttons are visible if you are in this Google test and then click on three dots and then a …

We saw Google testing it the other day (like two nights ago) and yesterday afternoon Google confirmed it for me on Search Engine Land and also on Twitter. Google launched a new card-layout design for Google News search results on desktop. It also inclu…

If you go to Google and search for [jokes] on mobile, Google will recommend you give the Google Assistant a try. At the top of the search results it will load a box that simulates the Google Assistant directly in Google search by sharing a joke with yo…

It looks like Google has rolled out a new search user experience in the desktop search results. When you start typing your query and Google shows you search results, those search results will be lightened up, the transparency will go down and be less …

Often you see people complaining that Google is favoring their own properties over third-party properties. Like showing Google My Business Listings over Yelp or Google Job listings over results from Indeed or showing YouTube videos over videos from oth…

Go to Google on desktop or mobile and search for [Wimbledon] then take that live scores box and scroll the carousel where it shows women’s scores, men’s scores, etc to the left and you will see a tennis ball. Click the tennis ball and presto, you go in…

Google is now showing more related search boxes in the image search results. Google has for some time shown the related search box but now more people are seeing it come up more often and several times as you scroll through the image results in Google…

I am personally seeing the new card layout when I do searches in Google News on some browsers. On Chrome Mac, I get the card layout but on Safari Mac I get the old bundled list layout.

Some searchers in India are noticing that when you enter a query into Google that has no matches and Google has no idea what you are looking for, Google will show you a section called “some popular queries.”

We have seen the interesting finds section for AMP pages and other types of blocks in the Google mobile search results. But Google seems to be testing the interesting finds section in some knowledge panels on mobile search.

Back in February 2018 Google announced a new form of AMP Stories named “visual stories.” Well, it looks like they are now live. Truth is, they may have been live for some time but I have not seen them until now. Valentin Pletzer shared he spotted it…

Google seems to be testing or launching (or maybe it is a bug) showing a more images section within the featured snippets. I had a couple of reports of people seeing this over the past 24-hours, I personally cannot replicate it.

Google is testing, I believe, another image search design, this time with making the image preview box a sticky box on the right side panel. Google has been testing many variations of these image preview boxes in search for some time but this one is b…

Go to Google.com and search for [fireworks] on desktop or mobile and you will see Google light up the search results page with a fireworks display.

Google announced yesterday as part of its efforts to standardizing the robots exclusion protocol that it is open sourcing its robots.txt parser. That means how GoogleBot reads and listens to robots.txt files will be available for any crawler or coder t…

Google might be testing, or it might be a bug, or some browser issue, I am not 100% sure, a text based search button in its search box. So instead of the magnifying glass in the search box, there is a text based button or link that says “Search.”
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Yesterday some searchers began complaining that Google search would not return search results for them. Instead, Google would return an error that reads “did not match any documents.”

There is a Google bug that can show tons of links in the featured snippets box on the right hand side panel of the search results. Andy Haley spotted the issue and Ryan Jones shared it on Twitter, Valentin Pletzer was able to replicate the issue as we…

Google has said that the featured snippet without an attribution was a bug and 100% not something Google is testing. Danny Sullivan from Google was pretty upset with me for calling this a test when I never asked Google if they were indeed testing it.
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So while not showing attributions on featured snippets was a bug, in that same screen shot, Google not showing favicons is not a bug – it was intended. Danny Sullivan from Google confirmed on Twitter that “lack of favicons is not a bug here.” “With som…