Category: Google Search Engine

Last week we reported on a new user interface rollout by Google showing a top carousel filter to help you expand or diversify your search query.

Well…

Last November, Google said they are experimenting with the mobile-first index but recently told us it isn’t launching any time soon.

But now some are seeing the mobile-first index in the Google desktop search results…

Google has added a new feature that lets searchers filter down the search results by category using a carousel slider. Chris Haines informed me about it on Twitter yesterday…

Gary Illyes from Google was listening in on a conversation about folks calling me asking if I was Google. No kidding…

There was a massive bug with Google Image search for the past four days that prevented searchers from clicking on an image to see the enlarged version.

The complaints started flowing in on Thursday, January 26th…

Back in 2011, Google News launched badges and sharable sections – an idea I was not too fond of – but who am I…

you do a search in Google for [spinner], Google will show you an interactive spin wheel. This works…

Google has brought their book search book preview feature from desktop to mobile search…

Google has been testing since 2013 but has done so more often in 2016.

Now, in 2017, it looks like Google is pushing the box/card layout design for search again. I have had close to 20 people email, tweet at me…

The new version of the Google Android app has a new notification that can send you a notification when a new Google Doodle is on the Google home page. Often times, believe it or not…

Google announced that their new Android search app lets you do searches even when you are offline or have a bad internet connection. What happens is, you search, Google tells you the internet is not working and will try later…

Google’s John Mueller said in a YouTube hangout on the other day at the 9:20 mark into the video that when Google launched the mobile friendly label in the mobile search results…

Google has had links within their search snippets for years, I think it dates back almost ten years. I just can’t find the blog posts where I covered it back then right…

There is a large Google Web Search Help thread with complaints that Google Alerts stopped sending users their notifications.

It was a bug that surfaced around January 10th and was supposedly resolved the same day…

Tomo from Google said in an ongoing Google Webmaster Help thread about disabling AMP in search that last week Google released a way for iOS users to scroll away the AMP top bar…

Rank Ranger, a software based Google tracking tool, posted on Twitter that it seems Google has been displaying more rich cards in the search results since after the new year.

They said they now are tracking that on average…

If you go to Google’s South Africa home page at google.co.za and you see the gift box jumping under the search box, clicking on it won’t do anything. Google is asking you to “unwrap the best of Google for Android and iOS.” But if you click on that gi…

Google Operating System blog spotted a new look and design for the recipe results on Google mobile searches. The new look has these much richer cards with more filters at the top.

Earlier this month…

Looks like Google is testing yet another Google user interface for the mobile search results. Tejas Thakkar posted a screen shot of the test on Twitter showing search snippets showing the URL (or breadcrumb) at the top, then the title/headline, follow…

Google is now showing AMP results in Google Image Search. Will Barnes notified me of this on Twitter and I was able to replicate it…