Google Image Search Can’t Find Images From Before April 2008
So apparently if you try to filter out images in Google Image search to show images from April 2008 or earlier, Google will tell you that you are out of luck. If you change it to May 2008, sure, but something about April 2008 or earlier…
Google Featured Snippets Showing “According To” Above Some Results
If you search Google for [top online marketers] Google will show you a featured snippet that is a bit different than any other featured snippet layout that I think I’ve ever seen.
First, it shows the source…
Google Tests Related Searches Box In Image Search
It looks like Google is testing a related searches box directly in the mobile version of Google Image search. I personally tried multiple ways to replicate this feature, but I am not yet seeing it…
Report: Google Overtakes Facebook In Referral Traffic
A week or so ago, a report came out via Recode that Facebook is no longer the top site for referral traffic, Google has overtaken them to reclaim that as the top site in that category again.
Parse…
Google Tests Favicons In Search Results Snippets Again
Google is testing favicons in the search results snippets again…
Google’s 2017 Inspirational Year In Search Review: It’s All About How
This morning Google published their annual year in search review, showing the world what the most popular search trends were for the 2017 year. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai…
Google Search Results By Celebrities Over Selfie Videos
Honestly, this new feature from Google confuses me – these selfie-video answers performed by celebrities to answer questions about them in mobile search. Google said “now in the U.S…
Google Tests Live Blog Progress Bar Divider
Google seems to be testing a variation of their live blog coverage label. Instead of the red label icon in the search results…
Google Defends Inaccurate Mount Agung Eruption Search Listings
Google had some inaccurate news stories listed in their top stories section in search when people Googled [agung]. Mount Agung is currently erupting, you can check out the fake photos and videos of it on Twitter if you want or read about it on Wikiped…
Google Tests Mobile Search Interface With Few Organic Results
Justin Briggs has been in this Google test bucket where he is seeing Google mobile search results with very few organic results, mostly two organic listings, sometimes up to five but never more…
Google Adds To Featured Snippets: Images, Related Search & Content & People Relations
Google has added a bunch of features to the featured snippets, one we covered yesterday before the Google announcement.
To make a long story short…
Now Live: The Google 2017 Holiday Decorations For Hanukkah, Christmas & Kwanzaa
Today, Google has launched their annual holiday decorations on their search results page. Like always, you can trigger them by searching for the holiday name and sometimes variations of the holiday name…
New Google Best Answer Carousel In Search Results Snippets
Several folks on Twitter are notifying me of a new Google search feature where Google is showing a box for “best answer” with other answers following directly below search results snippets…
Google Tests Related To Knowledge Answers
Google is testing a new knowledge answer, above the knowledge cards, that show you who is related to who when you search for a famous person’s name in search…
Google Notable Moments In Knowledge Graph Cards
Google has a new feature they are testing in some knowledge cards called “notable moments.” In short, these notable moments give you a timeline of specific events that occurred in a carousel format…
Google Shows Personal Search Filter Tab To Some Users
Eoghan O’Sullivan posted on Twitter that he is seeing the “personal” tab back in the Google search results, at least in his mobile Google search app…
Matt Cutts Dislikes How Google Links To Search Results
Matt Cutts, former Google executive and star amongst the SEO community, posted on Google+ how he is not happy with how Google is linking to the “10 blue links,” the core Google search results.
Matt showed how Google is not directly linking from the c…
New Audiobooks In The Google Book Knowledge Cards
Now if you search on your mobile device for a book, if there is an audio version of that book, let’s say on Audible, Google will let you click on that as an option to get the book…
Google Adds Donate Button To Google For Nonprofits In Search
Google announced that they have added a “Donate” button to some non profits in their knowledge cards in the search results. The donate button lets searchers quickly give to the charity they searched for…
New Google Finance Has Launched, Dropping The Portfolio Feature
Google announced yesterday, and it is finally now rolled out to searchers, that the new Google Finance is live.
We knew it was coming because Google warned us that the portfolio feature is going away and it did…