Category: Google Search Engine

The other day, Google announced that they are adding more sources of data to Google Trends. So now instead of just web search data, Google will pull in data from News, Shopping, Images and YouTube…

Over the past few days or so, since around Thanksgiving time, I’ve been getting emails, tweets, etc from people telling me they are seeing Google showing longer snippets from the typical two line search results snippet…

Google seems to be testing a new search feature that shows a “research” search carousel box in the search results for content around your query. I cannot replicate this by Geoff Angell posted a screen shot on Twitter showing the feature in action…
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Pixel 2 users will soon get the new version of Google Lens…

Earlier this month, we showed how Google was testing a new look for the PDF label in the search results. Well, it seems to be rolling out for more content or file types.

Will O’Hara posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google showing content labels f…

Google announced on Twitter they are previewing a new design and feature set for the Google Flights search. You can access Google Flight Search at google.com/flights and from there…

Google has added a new tab to the movie knowledge panel/card for how to watch the movie. The tab says “watch movie” and will show you where you can watch the movie. In the example below, it gives you two Google sources…

Google seems to be testing a small variation of the “people also search for” box in the Google search results. This one is a box below the search result snippets that lists out related queries to expand you search…

Google this morning announced some improvements for job search including the ability to see estimated salary ranges, a better location filter…

Vlad Rappoport shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google now showing a spot in the product knowledge graph cards for “editorial reviews.” I can replicate it on my iPhone for a search on [max trainer m5]…

Google seems to be testing a file type label in the search results snippets. Sergio Redondo posted a screen shot on Twitter of him being shown a PDF label icon in the Google search results on a snippet…

You can now compare your favorite stocks directly in Google’s web search interface. Just search for the stock symbol and then click on the new “compare” tab. It will bring up similar stocks and you can click the + sign to add them to the comparison cha…

Google announced a new knowledge graph card named news publishers knowledge graph. At least that is what Danny Sullivan at Google called them on Twitter…

I am sure I’ve seen flavors of these product comparison search results in Google but the one Grant Oster shared on Twitter seems really new to me. It seems to compare not just pricing points but reviews…

Last night, if you were looking for more information on the person behind the horrendous Texas Church shootings and you went to Google and searched for [devin patrick kelley] you may have been disturbed to see some of the Twitter posts, Tweets…
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Yesterday afternoon, all my Google News RSS feeds stopped working. I and my friend Gary Price from infoDocket spotted the issue early on. The RSS feeds from Google News were showing “this RSS feed URL is deprecated.” It goes on to say “this RSS feed …

The new Google mobile interface is rolling out now. It is curved and round. It is still card based but with more curb appeal. Do you like it?

Did you know Google holds internal search conferences for Google employees…

For the past couple years Google has been testing different user interfaces around rounded corners and edges for the mobile search results.

Well, Google has kept up on testing them…

Back in 2016 Google enabled you to see emojis in the search results if that was your intent when searching. Previous, they banned them from showing up but promised not to penalize for using them…