Category: Google Search Engine

Everyone knows that tools that scrap and do automated queries are against Google’s terms of service. In fact, Google has blocked tools in the past from doing them. But many many tools continue to do it…

Take note SEOs, with Google going more and more towards voice queries, i.e. Google Assistant on your mobile phone, Google Home in your kitchen…

Google announced on Twitter that you can tweet to it at @google with emojis and get back local search results.

For example…

There is a massive thread in the Google Web Search Help forums that started about a week ago with complaints about how Google’s search results are biased and racist.

This specifically compares a search in Google Image search for [sexy white mom] vs …

Seems like Google is trying out a new search feature for recipe search results. Wendy Kirwan searched for [fleishig vegetable soup recipe], fleishig means meat…

It looks like Google is starting to roll out the new desktop search interface we saw them testing a month or so ago. It might be Google just bumping up the people who see the test, but I am now even able to replicate it across several browsers…
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This is a fun one, maybe… If you go to Google Docs, type “search engine optimization” and click on the “Explore” feature – you will see that Google thinks the term “search engine optimization” is related to the animal, weasel…

Google is testing another form of their back to top button from early this month. The new version doesn’t follow you as you scroll or is in a bold blue color…

Google is testing another form of their back to top button from early this month. The new version doesn’t follow you as you scroll or is in a bold blue color…

Jon Hogg posted on Twitter a screen shot of Google once again promoting AMP in the search results. This one places a very bold blue banner across the bottom of the search result snippet of an AMP powered search result in Google.

The banner reads “AMP…

Now if you search for movies or TV shows, the Google knowledge panel will have thumbs up and thumbs down icons in the knowledge panel to like or dislike the movie or TV show.

Here is an example of a search for [westworld]…

Maile Ohye, a Developer Programs Tech Lead at âGoogle who is very involved with the search community, presented at State Of Search last night. In her keynote presentation…

Back in April, Google announced they are bringing TV show search to the search results but then the Google blog post went missing. It is unclear why but the blog post is completely gone and not even on the new blog, as far as I can see…

Google has updated their How Search Works page changing the number of pages Google has indexed from 30 trillion back in March 2013 to 130 trillion today.

Yes…

As you all know, Google is constantly testing new user interfaces but this one is a bit more extreme that some of you may notice yourself if you land on it.

Here, the top bar, where it has search tools and settings has changed…

We’ve been covering many many interfaces for the “people also ask” feature in the Google search results…

Google may be testing a new look for the top news carousel, which is powered by AMP content only.

Beatriz Rodrigálvarez Vicente shared a screen shot on Twitter, hat tip @christian_wilde…

Google announced last night that they are enforcing their safe browsing violations to protect their searchers from landing on dangerous web sites. This is the malware, unwanted software, phishing…

Last week we reported that Google dropped the knowledge graph snippets overlays. Well, last night Google confirmed this is not a bug but instead, it was intentionally removed. Google told us they will “confirm that due to low usage…

Sergey Alakov, who finds all this crazy Google UI tests…