Category: Google Search Engine

Last week, Google introduced smart display support for the Google Assistant. This enables you to not hear responses from the Google Assistant, but also see them. Plus, there is a developer API.

A nice number of people are seeing Google testing a new design and layout for hotel search results in Google. The new look looks more compact and modular as opposed to the card based list view in the current design…

Google has released an update to event based search results that now add time, location, ticketing providers, the ability to share, save and other relevant information. This should start rolling out in the Google search results early next week.
…

I am seeing reports of Google testing a new look for their image search results. This one looks more white and tiled format then the other. A Google Web Search Help thread that started back on May 29th was the first to spot this and now more and more…

Google is updating the referrer URL from Google Image search in the upcoming months. This is super important news for anyone who has any web site that uses any form of analytics to track their incoming traffic. Those who use Google Analytics and noth…

Masaki Okazawa from Merkle posted on Twitter a test Google is trying in search to show hotel prices for a specific hotel over a specific date range directly in the search results…

Google has had the ability to look up your IP address for years now…

If you go to Google Trends you can filter those trends by country and the list of countries available is massive but when you go to the real time trends section, that list is a small fraction of countries you are able to filter by…

A Wired story named The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice came out yesterday and is getting a lot of attention – in short it talks about how Google deals with returning quality information in search…

Go ahead and try to search using Google’s verbatim filter with a custom date range – you’d be out of luck. If you try to use both, Google will remove the other filter…

Eric Hedekar from STAT, a tool that tracks the Google search results, posted on Twitter that he caught Google testing making the URL in the snippet a hyperlink and clickable. The snippet typically only has one clickable location…

Over the past week or so, SEOs have been noticing that for really long tail keyword searches in Google, Google may not just show the “missing” label to describe a keyword in your search is missing from this specific result set, but now also includes “m…

Danny Sullivan, now at Google, wrote on Twitter that he has been considering writing a Google Guide to Search document on how organic search works, the features…

It seems like more and more people are asking me recently if the Google knowledge panels are looking more and more like featured snippets…

As you know, Google has been using these hotel highlight icons to display hotel amenities in a more graphical manner. Well now Google is testing using these icons in the hotel search filters…

Late Friday, Google announced they’ve opened up verification of the knowledge panels to more and more people. In fact, I was able to even verify my own Google knowledge panel within a matter of a minute or so…

Google announced yesterday that they have upgraded the Google Assistant to hold a conversation with you in a more natural way with “Continued Conversation…

The Google Dance at the GooglePlex, at Google’s California headquarters, did not happen in 2018 but they did bring it back to the US the two previous years but did not do so this year…

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter about a new one box, smart answer…

Google’s John Mueller does webmaster hangouts all the time, it is a wonderful thing and a great way for webmasters and SEOs to speak to a live Googler about their issues. However…