Category: Google Search Engine

In July 2015, Google announced their new version of the Google Patent Search at patents.google.com. But it seems like the old version was still accessible via

This morning the folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter that over 70% of the page one Google search results listings are HTTPS…

Google launched this morning at the AMP Conference something they are calling AMP Stories. They are swipeable user interfaces that tell you a story. Google describes them as a “mobile-focused format for delivering news and information as visually rich…

Google announced any web page served over HTTP and not HTTPS will be marked as not secure by Chrome starting in July 2018. This is no joke…

The Google Search App for iOS and Android has removed the top quick links buttons from the screen. I guess it wasn’t used much…

Normally when Google shows new content in the search results, it may show in the search result snippet a section that says “X minutes ago” but Tejas shared a screen shot of Google saying “in X hours” instead…

Every now and then, John Mueller of Google opens up his Google webmaster hangout sessions to SEOs and webmasters who want to join him in person for the event. He has done so a few times at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, and he d…

Google is testing yet another variation of the local knowledge panel, this one is making the blue background color – white. Sergey Alakov posted about it on Twitter and shared screen shots of the white look…

Before the weekend the internet began questioning why Google Home, Google Assistant or Google search would not give you the answer to [who is jesus]…

As you may have heard by now, there was a massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake off the gulf of Alaska and the whole west coast is on tsunami alert. The tsunami is suppose to reach parts of Alaska now…

Everyone over the past week or so has been talking about the selfie feature in the Google Arts & Culture app for iOS and Android. It works in most locations, not all…

We have seen many many variations of the [people also search for] feature in Google for several years now. Here, might be a new one, although, it looks familiar to me and I may have reported on it before…

Google is once again testing the light blue link color for the snippet links in the search results. They tested it last year on and off and more times in the past. This time, they are testing it again according to Sergey Alakov who posted a screen sh…

We’ve seen many flavors of sitelinks from Google including flavors of expandable sitelinks. Well, here is one more variation of that, first spotted by Kapil Chadha and posted on his Twitter account…

Last week we reported on a possible bug or change with reverse image search in Google. Well, it is a bug…

Shobhit Saxena shared with me on Twitter what may be a new feature in the Google search results – although, it does not feel 100% new. We’ve seen images in the organic search results snippets, we have even image carousels on mobile and of course…
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Over the past few days, I have been hearing complaints on Twitter and Google Web Search Help forums about the reverse image search feature…

Mordy Oberstein spotted Google adding a box to the search results titled “latest from the web” which seems to include radio shows about the search query…

A lot of news came out yesterday around the Google Assistant from Google at CES, here is Google’s official announcement…

Google announced last night that they are working up a solution to show the publishers URL and not the Google AMP cache URL from google.com/amp in Google search…