Category: Google Search Engine

Yesterday, as everyone is reporting, Google launched Google Dataset Search. A way to search datasets from environmental and social sciences, government, and ProPublica-style news organizations. The cool thing is this is all powered from the datasets …

Google has doubled the speed of searches done on Chrome for Android through a technology named Service Workers. This lets Google cache repeated searches and serve them up twice as fast to some searchers.

A lot of sites are reporting Google has turned 20 years old, but the truth is, Google has not yet officially turned 20. Google officially celebrates their anniversary on September 27th, although they have done it on September 7th before.

Google is testing a way to load more stories in the top stories section where Google shows a list view versus a carousel. Of course, with the carousel look, you can swipe left to right through stories but with the list view, you are only given so many…

Google is showing the AMP icon in the carousel within the story image, as opposed to outside of the story image. You can still see both versions depending on the type of snippet you are looking at.

Yesterday we reported that the Google Search Settings page updated and removed the setting to define how many search results you want to see on a page. Well, it looks like the search settings page has been put back – Google reverted the change. At le…

Looks like more and more searchers are seeing a brand new design test from Google in their core search results. This test shows a rounded search box that sticks to the top as you scroll through the search results.

Google announced yesterday that the Google Assistant and Google Home can handle questions where you mix your responses between English and another language. Google can handle you asking a question in one language and then following up with another que…

Starting yesterday I started noticing many many complaints in the Google Web Search Help Forums about Google Image Search. In short, some users were unable to trigger the preview to show a larger image, even after clicking on the image. Google is awar…

Google is testing showing two different search results from the same domain name in a single search result box. Alex Quaye sent a screen shot, he is in the UK and searched for [eis tax relief] and Google returned two gov.uk results in a single outline…

President Donald Trump said on Twitter yesterday that the search results for his name, specifically [Trump News], is “rigged” and this “very serious situation-will be addressed!” Google responded saying “Search is not used to set a political agenda an…

Google announced this week a new Google Assistant feature to ask the Google Assistant to tell you about good news. You say “Hey Google, tell me something good” and Google will. It comes from the a network of Solutions Journalism Network that curates …

Google is testing another version of the image search preview window, this one is an overlay that hovers over the image search results after you click on the image. Earlier this week, we saw Google test place this image search preview on the right sid…

Google seems to be testing a new design for how Google Image search shows you previews of images after you click on the result. The hard thing about tracking Google Images is that different countries and regions have different interfaces, I believe bec…

If you search Google for [what is my user agent], Google will show you the answer. Just like they do for [what is my ip] or [speed test] and other computer related questions. Google is not linking you to a search result for the answer.

Google announced they have launched a new form of featured snippets that offer expandable snippets to help a searcher dive deeper into the aspects of a specific query. We actually saw Google testing this this past April and now it is officially live.
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I was testing some searches on Google’s mobile search results this morning and for some queries I was able to bring back the “next” button at the bottom of the search results. Google replaced the “next” button on mobile search with a “more results” b…

Google is testing showing images in the top stories list view. Previously, Google only showed images in the top stories carousel view, not the list view.

Google has been deploying various methods to allow searches to compare products both in paid and organic search results. Here is another method for showing these comparisons, I believe this is organic and not paid.

Google has quietly launched a new search box answer for searches like deep breathing, breathing exercise and more. It asks you to take a minute and concentrate on your breathing.