Category: Google Search Engine

Google is constantly testing user interfaces, we cover some but not all of them. This one was brought to my attention by AbhisheK Kasaudhan on Twitter.

This tests gives you a whiter, what looks to be more spacious, desktop search experience…
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Mozcast posted on Twitter that Google seems to have lowered the image search box that shows up for many search queries in the web results. Mozcast wrote…

Google is showing the reviewers name on some of the rich snippet reviews. One good example is when you search for [iphone 6 review] and the reviews that come up list the person who wrote the article…

Google is testing displaying a darker and bolder AMP logo in the mobile search results. Typically the logo is grayed out a bit, but here at least as captured by Mats Tolander on Twitter…

Over a year ago, Google was caught testing roboto font in the search results snippets. Well…

Yesterday Google announced they added two popular games directly to the search results. You can now play solitaire and tic-tac-toe directly in the Google search results.

Try it by simply going to Google on desktop or mobile and search for [tic-tac-t…

Google announced yesterday that they are dropping the mobile friendly label from the mobile search results. Let me be crystal clear, like I was yesterday…

Back in May, we reported Google testing a card style layout for their search results. We reported it other time as well, and also back in 2013.

But now it seems more and more people are seeing the card layout at Google…

A Reddit thread has one person who spotted that if you search for [**] in Google, Google will primarily show you local web site.

I tried it myself and it looks legit…

Google seems to be testing, once again, image thumbnails in the web search results when on mobile.

Dan Smullen posted on Twitter a screen shot of him seeing image thumbnails in the mobile search results for a search on [green car]…

Earlier this month both @johndefeo and @Honhaar posted on Twitter that Google Trends updated their design and features. Honestly, I barely use the tool, so I had to wait for Google to tell me what changed…

As you know, Google said they will be expanding AMP beyond news stories but also into all types of pages. But they did not give a timeline…

A month ago, we reported how Google was testing a carousel for the people also ask feature on mobile searches. But today Google seems to be testing it also on desktop.

Back in April, Google began showing trending searches in the autocomplete search box within the Google Search App. It is cool, but tapping in the search box to see trending searches, is not always that relevant and many searchers didn’t want to see it…

Tomorrow, August 11th, Google’s Brain Team will be answering questions submitted in this Reddit thread on the topic of machine learning. It is an AMA, ask me anything…

Gabe Rivera, the founder of the awesome Techmeme site…

Google seems to be testing a new reviews stars format and user interface on mobile devices. The new format places the reviews summary below the snippet, as opposed to in the middle of the snippet…

Google announced yesterday that now when you do a search for restaurants, Google will show you “reviews from top critics and best-of lists from reputable publishers.”

So if you search for [chinese restaurant] or [italian restaurant]…

Both Google and Bing announced their search results interfaces for Rio summer Olympics style searches…

Google announced Friday they are going HSTS, HTTP Strict Transport Security, for Google.com. That means anyone who tries to go to HTTP will be forced to go to HTTPS…