Category: Google Search Engine

Google announced yesterday they have added support for Creator and Credit metadata and will be adding Copyright Notice metadata. This meta data will be used by Google to display Image Credits information on the image within Google Image Search.
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For some reason, when you go to Google Image Search and search for the term [hot] – the only images that come up are pictures of women in underwear, lingerie, swimsuits and other sexual situations. There are no photos of hot coffee, desserts, fire pla…

According to RankRanger, Google has extended the number of characters they show for the title in the search results snippets from an average of 55 characters to 67.5 characters. That is a 20% increase in the length of the average number of characters …

I’ve never seen this before, Google showing a double URL in a single search result snippet. In fact, I was able to reproduce this by turning off safe search and trying the query multiple ways. This was spotted by @dudesweet on Twitter.

Earlier this month we saw Google testing what we called relevant history, but now Google is calling it related activity cards. In short, Google announced Monday a new card that shows past searches related to your current search.

About six years ago, Google published a behind the scenes video of what goes on in an internal search quality meeting. Now, CNBC published an article after being invited to sit in on one of these meetings this past month. It seems to me, outside of s…

Valentin Pletzer shared a cool user interface in Google search that shows a onbox knowledge panel answer that lets you scroll and it lines up nicely. I am not sure if I’ve seen this format before, but Valentin noted this may be coming from the structu…

Google may be testing auto-expanding, auto-loading, the people also ask box so that it opens by default, without having to click on anything to expand it. Normally, the people also ask box is closed and to see the contents within it, you need to click…

Google may be testing showing a blue shield icon in the snippets for some government related sites. I am honestly thinking this might be some sort of browser extension but it may not be and it may be a feature Google is testing. This was shared by Mi…

Google seems to be testing yet another feature to show image thumbnails in the refinement bubbles/buttons at the top of your Google Image Searches. The refinement buttons let you further filter your image search to specific categories and here Google …

Google seems to have launched image thumbnails in the sitelinks of the mobile search result snippets. If you search for [bear] on Google mobile search and look at the Sitelinks for the Wikipeida snippet, you will see these images in the Sitelinks caro…

It looks like Google is testing a new look for the drop down to select a color in the shopping panel. Tauqeer Aziz shared a screen shot of him bringing up an iPhone in the Google web search results and when you click on the drop down, it shows the col…

It is rare to see Google bug out, not work, when you try to use it. But yesterday starting around 3pm EDT through this morning at 3am EDT Google could not give you search results for the query [compare the market]. It is not clear why it was broken, …

Here is a screen shot of a new user interface for videos showing up in the mobile search results. Normally you get a carousel of videos, but here you see a large video at the top, with two videos below and the option to show more videos.

Sometimes, espesially on Android devices, when you search Google, you may see a link for “instant apps.” This actually dates back to 2015 when Google let you try apps without installing them, they called it app “streaming.” But I guess now they call t…

Here is another test Google is trying in their search results. This one shows up in mobile image search where it seems to show the sticky header but also this “related images” hover over that when you click on it, takes you to different images.

A couple weeks ago, Scott Huffman the VP of Engineering at Google shared some interesting data on the Google Assistant. Here is one slide that shows how people throughout the day use the Google Assistant on their Android device compared to their Google…

STAT, a search analytics tool shared a graph on Twitter Friday showing that they saw a 10 point lift in the number of search results snippets that include images in the snippets. Now almost 65% of the queries they track show images in snippets in the …

Google posted on Twitter that the Google Research team is looking to gather some names of webmasters to interview about their experience in using Google Search Console. Google created a short survey form so you can be added to the list of people who t…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he finds it awkward when he reads articles and how-to guides on techniques on breaking Google’s terms of service (TOS) and their webmaster guidelines. He replied to an article written on Search Engine Journal…