Category: Google Search Engine

Google announced improved and new college related knowledge panels for those searching for a college or university to attend. Google said “we’re bringing a new feature to Search to help you navigate the college search process…

Paul Haahr, who has been with Google for over 16 years, working on core search problems and solutions posted a 20 tweet thread on why Google ranks what they rank. It…

If you go to Google and search for keywords such as [gay], [pride month], [homosexual], [lgbt] and other variations of those keywords, you will get the Gay Pride Month decorations in the Google search results…

Once again, Google is testing video carousels in desktop search – we saw it a bit over a year ago…

Google quietly announced on Twitter that they added two new Google Posts types within Google My Business. Now you can post about products and/or offers including the what’s new and event posts…

Do a site command search and add either a normal query after it or another search operator after it…

So you all know Google Posts, but do you remember AMP Stories – the two may have been merged or I might be confused. In any event, Google has one upped the Google Posts for a search for the [stanley cup]…

Imagine you do a search in Google, get pulled away from it because of more important matters…

Do a search for [is google down] and Google will return an answer telling you if the search engine is currently working or not. The ironic thing is that if Google was down, it wouldn’t be able to tell you if they were up or down…

Google is once again testing gray colored stars in the search results, where you would typically see orange stars for the rich results review snippets. Google did a lot of testing on the colors of the stars in 2014 including green, yellow, gray…
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Reena Jha from India shared with me on Twitter a new search interface being tested by Google, maybe only in India, I do not know. The new interface puts the navigation in tabs in the footer of the page…

I saw several tweets in the past 24-hours or so from people about a new Google search feature, well, not new, but maybe a new treatment, where the related searches show in a box, with icons, towards the bottom of the search results page…

Google News on mobile, the search results, maybe have launched a new user interface. This might be from the new version of Google News from a few weeks ago…

With the new Google News, they didn’t just drop the standout tag and editors pick but it seems like the direct method to subscribe to Google News via RSS and Google News keyword searches is gone. There are still ways to subscribe…

Paul Haahr, a top lead Google engineer in search, said on Twitter that Google indeed has a bias, if you want to call it that…

Google announced as I covered yesterday at Search Engine Land that they have updated Google Trends. If you don’t know, Google Trends is an excellent resource for SEOs and SEMs…

Google announced yesterday that they are “taking legal action against Kydia Inc. d/b/a BeyondMenu, Point Break Media, LLC (and affiliated entities), and Supreme Marketing Group…

A few days ago, it was reported that Google removed the “don’t be evil” from their code of conduct…

If you go to your Google search settings and try to change some of those settings, such as the number of results per page, your geographic region and some other settings, it won’t work. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix…

Every now and then I see people post screen shots of Google search ads that look suspicious because (a) they are irrelevant to the query and (b) kind of hidden and hard…