Category: Google Search Engine

Google in November 2017 began showing movies and TV shows to watch on YouTube and other providers directly in search. Now, it seems Google is pushing that a bit more with the ability to add more streaming providers and testing new interfaces for it.
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Just like this past Christmas, Google’s John Mueller on New Years even and day is out helping webmasters and SEOs with their Google related issues. He posted several times over the New Years break.

9to5Google found a new Google feature that works on mobile for some featured snippets that lead to AMP pages. If you click on an AMP based featured snippet in mobile search, Google may jump you down, anchor or scroll you down, to the specific section …

Did you know you can go to Google and vote for your favorite NBA players for the All Star game and events. It works on Google.com, Google Assistant or on the NBA web site or apps. Go to Google and search for [nba all stars] or any team name or NBA rel…

Dejan noticed that if you search for [can’t wow “banana”] – which is a very unusual query – it can lead you into an infinite loop if you click a specific pattern. This reminds me a bit of searching for [recursion] in Google, but in that case, it is o…

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, testified before congress not too long ago (as you may remember) and one thing that he said that stood out to me was that Google has over a thousand people working on core search. It wasn’t clear if those were just enginee…

There have been many claims and studies that say searchers have a hard time telling the difference between the paid search ads and the free organic listings. Google’s Paul Haahr said on Twitter that those claims are “not true from everything I’ve seen…

It looks like Slack was able to leverage the new how to schema to get some of their API help documentation pages to show richer results in the Google search results.

A Reddit thread shared a screen shot from I believe Google India where they have a search result that helps searchers pronounce words. It reminds me of the Word Coach feature also only available in India that helps searchers learn new words.

Google is always testing new search results user interfaces, here is yet another test I’ve been noticing being reported over the past few days. Google is using a black URL or breadcrumb above the title in the search results snippet.

Every now and then I like to highlight when Google gets it wrong with their featured snippets. It is really a daily occurrence but here is a funny one. If you ask Google how old are the pyramids, Google will tell you they are 85 years old.

Google seems to be testing an expandable “more people” carousel. So instead of jumping to the person details when you click on a specific person, Google will load more details about the people in the carousel. Here are screen shots of this from Valen…

In August we caught Google testing showing thumbnails or icons in the related searches options in the mobile search results. Well now it seems to be fully live for all searchers on mobile. Not for all queries and related searches but for many.

Google has published their annual “Year in Search” – their old Google digest, which sums up the most searched for keyword phrases over 2018. To be clear, these are top trending searches, which takes into account an increase in interest from 2017 to 2…

Google Lens, the tool to have your camera look at objects and detect what they are, is now available on iOS devices. Bing’s search app had many of these features for iOS but now Google does as well.

After much testing, it appears that the URLs in the Google search results are now clickable. I noticed it last week, I assumed it was a continuation of the test but I still see it today as do others like Ari Roth.

As you know, Search Engine Land was delisted from Google’s search results for most of the day on Friday because a bug in Google’s hack sites classifier labeled the site as being hacked. Colin McDermott ran a Twitter poll asking if Google should delist…

There is this outstanding article from The New Yorker named The Friendship That Made Google Huge. It talks about how Googlers Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat fixed code and server problems, with the rest of the team, in the early days.

DuckDuckGo, a Google competitor, came out with a study that claimed Google’s search results create what is known as a “filter bubble,” this influencing what you click on and see. Google came to Twitter and defended themselves saying their personalizat…

For the past several days some searchers have been reporting issues with being able to go to Google.com and search the web. It happened to some searchers who were signed into Google. I was not able to replicate it but Andy B. from Google confirmed th…