Category: Google Search Engine

Google has dressed up their search results page for the holiday season. All you need to do is search for holiday related searches; such as [christmas],[chanukah], and [kwanzaa]. Here are screen shots of the mobile version of each.

After several months of ongoing testing, Google has officially launched the new desktop search results interface where the search bar header is rounded and sticks to the top. This went live Friday night, a Google spokesperson confirmed it for us at Se…

Google has posted their Hanukkah or Chanukah decorations for the holiday season. Why they also posted the Christmas and Kwanzaa decorations as well, but since Chanukah starts in less than 24 hours – I am sharing these decorations now.

Google has confirmed in the Google Web Search Help forums that they are running a test where the search results page shows no knowledge panel. The knowledge panel on desktop typically shows up on the right of the page when there is a match for a name,…

Google is testing a new design for how they display the previews and thumbnails of an image after you click on an image in the Google Image Search results. Instead of showing it framed out in a large black area, Google is testing showing the image pre…

Google is testing new functionality for the related queries section you see at the footer of the Google search results. This shows Google giving the searcher the ability to click on a related query and then it expands and shows them a single search re…

Google seems to be showing a special query refinement option in the featured snippets section to show videos. Eric Hedekar from Moz (formerly STAT) shared two screen shots of this in action on Twitter.

This is not a joke, Google has officially launched showing zero search results – yes, showing no actual search results – for a some very specific types of queries. When someone searches for time/date, conversion or math related answers – Google may ju…

Google is also testing a format for the featured snippets that lets you see multiple images in the position zero slot with a carousel format. So you can flip through the images in the featured snippet format.

Top stories in Google search on mobile search normally is made up of a carousel that shows a single row of stories you can flip through. Here is a test where Google is showing two rows of carousels in the top stories interface.

SEMRush posted a screen shot of Google showing a query expansion feature, like the people also ask feature, for video carousels. It is titled “related videos” and shows you different queries you can try in Google to show more related videos in the Goo…

A couple of months ago we reported that Google was testing a new design for their desktop search results interface. The search box was rounded and the top search box header area would stick to the top as you scroll. Over the past 48 hours or so, more…

RankRanger noticed that not only are the video boxes dropping out of the search results, but also the image boxes. In fact, they noticed a 25% reduction in the number of times the image box shows up for their dataset in Google.

You can now go to Google and ask it to tell you the current Hijri and/or Hebrew date, as well as ask it to convert the dates for you. I tested some examples and for the most part is works pretty well.

According to STAT Search Analytics and RankRanger, Google is showing significantly fewer video boxes or carousels in the search results then it did just a week or so ago. It seems Google is showing about 30% fewer videos or so.

As Google promised, they are working on a solution to show the publishers URL instead of the AMP cache URL in Google’s search results after you click on an AMP page. Yesterday Google posted a demo of how it works and how you can try it yourself.
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Hold on to your hats, Google is testing moving the magnifying glass from the right side of the related searches box to the left side of that related searches box. I know, it might be too much for you all to handle – but Google is indeed testing it.
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Sergey Alakov spotted a new Google hotel search results test, this one with the hotel highlight icons triggering overlays on top of the listing. This way when you click on a highlight icon, it shows you more details and you can swap to see more highli…

Fresh out of the snippets team meeting, Google is testing bolding the URL and/or breadcrumbs in the search result snippets. I doubt the meeting is related to the test, but heck. Either way, Google is constantly testing this type of stuff, I just find i…

One day you will be able to tell your grandchildren that you remember when Google’s home page was simply just a search box and nothing more. Those days are long gone with the introduction of the Google Discover feed now showing up below the Google sea…