Category: Google Search Engine

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The ability to autogenerate content for the web is nothing new, it can be used for spam purposes and it is also used for real publications around things like earnings reports and generic but routine based content…
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Google does send notices via Google Search Console to upgrade your WordPress install or other generic CMS platforms that are outdated. The other day…

Danny Sullivan of Google has just posted officially about this on Twitter saying “personalization of results is very light.” Most people searching in the same…

Remember Google announced in December that Google Posts now supports selfie style video answers from celebrities…

Google increased the max characters shown in the search results snippets box to 320 characters but now it seems Google has cut it down to 160 or less characters over the past week…

Since 2013, Google has been saying 15% of queries are new and never seen before by Google. The interesting part, this is five years later and the stat has not changed…

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Google has this thing they call dogfooding where they test internally new features before they release it to non-Googlers, or the world. “These dogfood versions often have features unavailable to the public but may be les…

Google sent a boatload of notifications to some of those who have verified properties in the Google Search Console that they can now improve the discovery of their content in the Google Assistant…

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Mordy Oberstein spotted and posted on Twitter what looks to be a new feature for those Google featured snippets. This one shows a more button under the featured snippet (even when the featured snippet is at the top)…
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Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums (hat tip to mayank_jee) a screen shot of Google’s search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans…

We’ve seen Google asking searchers to rate the search results before and even ask them if the longer search results are useful or not. Here is an another example of Google asking searchers to rate if the featured snippets are helpful or not…

I often search for different Google property home pages, so if I want to see the home page of Google Australia, I’d Google [google australia] to be given www.google.com…

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There are a bunch of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums about a bug with Google’s image search where the images are not fully loading…

David Gray spotted and posted on Twitter a featured snippet that expands and has multiple drop down expansion menus. If you search for [garage conversion] on mobile, you probably will see it for yourself…

You know the lovely folks at speedtest.net – they tell you how fast or slow your internet connection is…

Many people think Google is able to predict the future now, based on how much data they have and their AI work. But here is an example of Google showing a date snippet a couple weeks in the future from today…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google Assistant may use a third-party Google Assistant app when their primary first party responses do not return a result…

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google has confirmed they are testing a new start screen on their browser, Chrome…

Folks were asking John Mueller about Google adding the ability to add a link to Google Search Console in the Google menu, the 9 dots at the top right of any Google page. The truth is…

Honestly, I am not sure if this is new, it might be how image search works in this specific country but in short, a user posted on Twitter a screen shot of viewing the Google image search results that is different than how I see it…