Category: Google Search Engine

Google is testing displaying knowledge panels in the search results that do not show any attribution. When I test this, I get Google attributing Wikipedia for the content but in a test that @Venkatramani spotted, it shows a similar knowledge panel but …

Yesterday, as expected, Google added a link to the footer of the lyrics box to show who they licensed the lyrics from. So now Google can fully say who they got this content from. But what I found even more interesting was how former Google search qua…

Moz published data showing how based on their 10,000 keyword data set that the Google diversity update where Google would infrequently show more than two results from the same domain was a tiny change and possibly done as a PR maneuver to appease the r…

Got to love this exchange – you have Genius coming out saying we caught Google red handed stealing/scraping our lyrics from our web site. Google then yesterday says, we didn’t do it, we paid for LyricFind to give us these lyrics they may have stolen f…

There are just so many Google user interface tests that are going on now, some are live, some are being tested, I don’t have enough time to put them into their own stories. So let me document some of them below, not all of them. In summary, the ones I…

After a few months of testing, Google has officially launched the new icon based top menu search bar on desktop search. So instead of it just showing text for the search categories or verticals, i.e. news, videos, images, maps, shopping, finance, etc -…

I am pretty sure the “full coverage” button for the Top Stories section is new but it is not exactly what was demonstrated at Google I/O a few months ago. Glenn Gabe spotted this yesterday and I can replicate it – where Google shows a larger Top Stori…

One of the things I see a lot from the SEO community is that they think Google employees, Googlers, do not care when a site has to cut staff or go out of business because of a Google update. While that may be true for some Googlers, most Googlers I’ve…

A post from a former Google search engineer, Kevin Lacker, from 2006 recounts a conversation this engineer had with the former head of Google search Amit Singhal. It discusses how sometimes these engineers just tried trial and error to see what works,…

Back in 2017, Google use to show “tags” for some types of search results snippets. They really didn’t do anything outside of add content to the snippet but you couldn’t click on them or interact with them in any other way. Well, they are now back and …

Google is testing another method to show the people also ask feature in desktop search. Spotted by Mordy Oberstein, he took a video of his screen where he showed how the people also ask is in this drop down selection tool, and the image rotates when y…

Google has been doing the refine by feature since 2017, or at least testing it since then. But now Google is testing a more detailed and layered version of refine by in their search results.

April 2018 Google changed the mobile search results page from having the option to go to the next page of results and instead show a “more results” button. Well, now Google is testing this same user experience on desktop search.

I personally have disabled the omnibox search suggestions or autocompletes in Chrome but a bunch of SEOs are saying Google is now showing image thumbnails in those search suggestions. Here are tweets and images from people in the industry that are say…

It is live – the 3D images in Google search results is now available to searchers. Just open your mobile browser, search for [shark] or other supported 3D objects and click on the “View in 3D” button for that object.

Google is now showing a video box in the mobile search results that highlights a large video at the top with two smaller video thumbnails below that video. On desktop, you get just the three videos lined up and the same size but on mobile – Google is …

Last night at around 8pm ET while in a taxi back to my home from the airport, I wrote on Search Engine Land that Google’s indexing issue was back. Google then confirmed a new indexing issue on Twitter at around 2:20pm ET the following morning. But th…

For years Google has been testing placing the URL at the top of the search result snippet. Google also has been testing favicons near the URL as well for years. Google has also been testing a black ad label. Now it is officially all live in the main …

There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue – I am not sure – but if you try to find recent content indexed by Google – Google won’t be able to help you out. If you try to search for content in the past hour or so from site…

Yesterday Google announced version 2.0 of Google Glass again. I say again because 2.0 I thought came out in 2013 when they came out with an upgrade of the version 1 model. But this is Glass Enterprise Edition 2, which is an upgrade of the version used…