Category: Google Search Engine

Paul Shapiro posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google mobile search results showing a new design for the “did you mean” feature…

RankRanger posted on Twitter that their mobile SERP tracking tool has captured that Google is now showing the people also ask box way more often on mobile for many European locales…

The Financial Times reported, which sites like Techcrunch and others have covered…

A month ago we caught Google testing a somewhat awkward layout for showing the AMP icon without the AMP text next to it. Shortly after that Google tested the AMP logo in blue with the word Instant next to it…

Google is once again testing image thumbnails in the search results snippets. Well, Google has done it for some queries and pushed them out but for standard snippets, Google doesn’t by default show image thumbnails for them…

A few months ago, Google began testing hotel search pricing sliders on mobile search. Well now Google is testing a similar user interface on the desktop search results.

Google seems to be testing a new look and user interface for the sitelinks in the Google search results snippets. I had two different people from India send me screen shots on Twitter…

Pete Meyers posted on Twitter that Google has a new look for the flight search ads results. So I tested it and I compared it from what we saw over a year ago and the answer is, it depends…

Google is testing a new look for the AMP label in the search results. Instead of the typical gray AMP logo with AMP written next to it…

Google is testing another user interface for the topics refinements we saw them testing a few months ago. This new layout and design was spotted by Paul Shaprio and posted on Twitter…

Last week we reported that the Google sitelinks search box disappeared – well…

In July, Google dropped Google Instant Search and with that, the autocomplete suggestions scaled back to show 4 suggestions instead of 10. Well, in the past 24 hours or so…

As we covered yesterday, Google is launching flexible sampling as their new more relaxed method of the first click free program. So basically publishers have more control…

If you go to Google and search for [google usa] the first result that comes up has a title of “szkoÅ’a taÅ”ca dla dzieci Warszawa – Google.” That translates to “Warsaw Children’s Dance School – Google.” The URL does go to Google.com but a variation of it…

Some folks are noticing Google serving two flavors of their AMP URLs to users. One is your normal AMP URL and the other is the AMP URL with usqp=mq331AQCCAE= appended to the end of the URL…

It looks like Google has killed off the Sitelinks searchbox that launched in 2014 and has been shown for many sites in the mobile and desktop search results…

Back in March 2016, we reported that Google was showing phone number extensions in the organic search results snippets. Well, that seems to now be expanding beyond the US and into other regions…

It might be Google’s 19th birthday today but did you know that Google.com was registered over 20 years ago…

A few months ago, Google began showing top voted tags for movies knowledge panels, before that like and dislike buttons – now Google is showing in some cases audience reviews…

Google has quietly posted in the Google Web Search Help forums that they are deprecating the portfolios section in Google Finance. It is going away next month…