Category: Google Search Engine

Google seems to be testing or rolling out a new form of the AMP carousel in the mobile search results. This is similar to top news or recipes and the like, but this one is labeled “fresh and viral.” I was personally able to replicate it in one of my t…

Last week, Google announced that you can now send recipes to your Google Home device and ask Google Home to walk you through making…

Dan Shure spotted late on Friday a Google search tests where Google was showing jobs…

A year ago, we covered how Google is testing a black UI test in the search results. We’ve seen the test reported to us several times over the year…

The SEO industry is in a buzz around a story named The secret lives of Google raters from arstechnica.com but not because of their “secret lives” – because most of us know how they work – we’ve covered them like crazy here.

The big news is that their …

We all know Google does a lot of testing, in fact, I probably only cover less than 5% of the tests people email or send me that Google is running. I see tons and tons of UI tests, feature tests, color changes…

Google noted in their project Owl announcement that they also updated their How Google Search Works site. The site was first introduced in March 2013 and had some content and feature revisions over the years…

As you know, there are two massive arms at Google – the organic search team and the paid search team. Organic and paid often have strict rules…

When Google took AMP live in their search results, they were accompanied by the AMP logo in the search results snippets. First that logo was a green color and…

There is a Hacker News thread where normal geeks are discussing how Google’s featured snippets can not just be wrong but also very embarrassing.

One example was a search for can carrot juice cure cancer, which came up with a featured snippet saying y…

I am pretty sure that anyone who has a Google Home in their kitchen and has a family would always be thinking…

It is now way more common to see text based featured snippets for “how to” style queries than video results then it was a couple years ago. But sometimes you can still trigger video results for how to like queries…

A few weeks ago, we reported Google was testing tags in the search results snippets. Well…

Mozcast features report is now showing that 50% of the Google’s search results that come up are now listed as HTTPS. Just last October, that figure hit 40% and in January 2016, it was only 25%…

There is a new spam game in town, those who try to trigger your Google Home device or Google Assistant to start talking to you. A new Burger King ad, as reported by The Verge aimed at triggering Google Home devices to start talking to you about their …

Google has been busy testing new mobile snippet layouts recently. We’ve recently seen them testing breadcrumbs at the top of the search results snippet and now Google is testing the URLs, instead of the breadcrumbs…

Google has announced they now have Google Partner certification for mobile site developers. Developers can take a 90 minute, 65 questions exam and if they score an 80% or higher…

As Danny Sullivan reported a couple weeks ago, Google has expanded Google Posts into museums, movies…

Yet another Google user interface test to add to our list. Google is testing placing the breadcrumb/URL at the top of the snippet…

I think I found something new myself that Google is testing or maybe have launched in the mobile search results snippets. A new line called “tags.” I can’t click on them but they show above the description/snippet block and below the title and breadc…