Category: Google Search Engine

Many of you are probably aware of the passing of Stephen Hawking yesterday. It is all over the news and Stephen Hawking was an instrumental figure to the whole world. You can read about his contributions and life at the NY Times or in hundreds of oth…

Google is showing answers in the search results without showing any organic listings or ads or anything but the answer. Yehoshua Coren posted on Twitter a screen shot of him going to Google and Google returning the answer and a button to show search …

Google announced yesterday they have added captions to the image search results in Google Image search. They get the captions by using the title attribute from the web page the image is on…

Google is testing a new design for the mobile search results…

As I covered at Search Engine Land via Android Police, Google is currently testing a new rounded design that actually cuts out the full Google logo and replaces it with the small G icon…

Sergey Alakov posted a screen shot on Twitter of the people also ask box not just showing other questions people are also asking but the answers to those questions right in the box…

Google announced last night that they are looking to bring the benefits and techniques they have learned from the AMP efforts to the open web standards…

Back in December 2016, Google introduced product schema for image search and announced it in April 2017. Now…

If you go to Google and search for [97702], which is the zip code for Bend, Oregon…

Google announced they have upgraded the iOS Google search app to bring three new features. Specifically the ability to search and share directly in iMessage, to look for related content in the Safari browser and drag and drop support for iPads…
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Google has announced they are now rolling out a new form of featured snippets they are calling “multifaceted featured snippets…

Google’s Search Liaison account on Twitter announced they have translated the how search works portal into an additional 17 languages…

Almost a week ago, Susanta Sahoo shared with me on Twitter a screen shot of a new feature in Google search named “Google Word Coach.” I emailed Google about it

A couple of days ago, Danny Sullivan, who is now tasked with defending Google, or as he likes to put it, explain how Google works so that people understand better when the results out of Google look wrong – same difference right…

Go ahead, do a search for [seroundtable] in Google, the domain of this site and you will get a knowledge panel from LeapFroggr. It says LeapFroggr was founded in 2013, ten years after this site’s first blog post and that it is based in Quezon City, Ph…

@Adoubleagent shared a photo (well, multiple) on Twitter of Google showing not just a single featured snippet image but multiple images in the featured snippet. I don’t believe I’ve seen multiple images in a featured snippet and for the life of me…
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If you go to Google and search for [random number generator] you will be given a box at the top to generate that number. If you try to share that URL to that search result using the share buttons…

For the past many many years, Google tests black designs for the search results interface. We’ve covered many of these tests over the years and here is yet another one…

Search for [michael jordan] and you will see his knowledge panel on the right side of the page. What you will also see a section about his net worth that says “1.65 billion USD (2018) Forbes…

Remember a few days ago I told you Google was going to make changes to Google Image Search because of the Getty Images legal spat and deal they closed recently…