Category: Google Search Engine

Google added a new feature on mobile search, including their iOS and Android search apps…

This comes as no surprise to anyone in our field that when Google published their State of Website Security in 2016 they documented that there was a 32% increase year (2016) over year (2015) of sites that got hacked…

Since last week, a bunch of searchers have been complaining that Google Image Search is missing the action buttons, i.e. view image, view page, share this image and other buttons…

Bryson Meunier spotted that when he asked his Google Home device “what is my day like…

Google is testing a new video based carousel in the desktop search results. Pete Meyers from Moz spotted it and posted on Twitter about it. Google use to have tons of video results in the search results but they’ve been trumped by featured snippets t…

John Doherty posted a screen shot on Twitter of Google testing a new recipe user interface for the mobile search results. We’ve seen similar interfaces before but in this case…

There is a small link in the footer of all search result pages on Google to give Google your feedback about the results on that page. In the past, it was just a way for Google to obtain your query, browser information and a message from you about the …

If you search on your mobile and the top stories AMP carousel comes up in Google’s search results, you may see underneath it a “related picks” selection. When you click on those related picks…

RankRanger, an SEO platform, reported yesterday via Twitter that their SERP features tracking tool has found that Google Answer related boxes…

A searcher is asking Google in a Google Web Search Help thread to change the picture they use for Donald Trump in the carousel that is displayed showing all US [presidents]…

When the Google Assistant launched, it was primarily only available on the Google Pixel phones and Google Home. Well…

Yesterday, something bad happened with the Google Accounts system. It isn’t clear exactly what went wrong but tons of people had unexpected sign out issues and then were unable to sign back into Google…

Google is discontinuing their their Google Site Search product, which is the paid version of using Google search technology to power your internal site search feature. They are telling customers to use the free custom search engine version instead…
…

Several folks are tweeting about a new user interface Google is testing for related searches. We have posts on Twitter from @seorakeshsingh and @RankRanger with screen shots of this new related search interface…

News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in t…

Last week, we reported that webmasters and SEOs saw huge declines in Google image search traffic specifically from international versions of Google – i.e. not the US. Well…

Dr. Pete from Moz posted on Twitter that he projects that by June 2017, 50% of the top search results that come up in Google will be of sites over HTTPS, not HTTP…

Back in 2015, Google promised to drop emojis from the search results and they did for the most part but something recently changed. Emojis are now showing up again in the search results snippets…

It appears that whenever a featured snippet comes up in the Google search results that it is now always followed by the people also ask feature. So you have a featured snippet at the top of the results and then right after it is this people also ask f…

Google has said they are testing a way to report offensive autocomplete suggestions. You know, the search suggestions Google gives searches as they type their query.

Here is a screen shot Google sent us of the method they are deploying…