Category: Google Search Engine

Former Googler, Murat Yatagan, shared on Twitter a document I don’t think I’ve seen before and I think most the readers here will get a kick out of. Basically the document explains why Google sells advertisements and not the search results…

Google has added social profiles and icons to the local knowledge graph. This was discovered by @ryanbowlerhat and Joy Hawkins posted this on Twitter…

Rob Birgfeld shared on Twitter a featured snippet in Google that answered the query [er wait times] for his local hospital’s emergency room…

If you search in Google for [presidential candidates] you will not find Donald Trump listed. Instead you will find Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders…

So I thought Google killed off emojis showing in the search results. I mean…

Three weeks ago I reported Google was testing a speed test feature in their search results, like Bing launched earlier. But now, it seems I am able to replicate this myself in some browsers…

I believe normally when you search for flights in Google, you get a sponsored box that shows a grid of airline choices with a date selector. It then takes you into the Google Flights/Travel experience…

Google added a new answer in search to help searchers figure out how to register to vote.

If you search on mobile for [register to vote] or similar queries…

John Lincoln @johnelincoln shared a photo with me of a new style for Sitelinks in the mobile results. They look like the people also search for blocks we covered some time ago, but now they are used for Sitelinks…

When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many results Google was able to find. For example, a site command for [site:www.google.com] returns “About 71,000…

After testing a feature in Google India to tab between English and Hindi results for 6 months now, Google has announced it is now officially live for mobile users in India.

In short…

Google doesn’t stop testing different interfaces, in fact…

Earlier this year, Bing added a speed test widget to their search results page for a query on [speed test] like search results.

Well, now…

It seems Google is showing image thumbnails on some of the “people also search for” related queries breakout search feature…

Gary Illyes from Google said last week at SMX Advanced that 34% of the Google search results are HTTPS.

We know Google began indexing HTTPS by default back in December of last year.

But still…

If you search for [should i vote for donald trump] on Google, Google will tell you not to vote for Donald Trump. Well, at least the featured snippet says that…

Google announced yesterday that they are expanding the search queries for health or medical symptoms to show you related queries…

AJ from Google quietly announced in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google is dropping the custom date range search filter specifically on mobile searches…

There seems to be this ongoing issue with Google Image search since February for a wide number of searchers. The issue is, when you go to Google Image search, search and click on an image, instead of it showing you the preview within the screen…
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Matt Cutts, the currently on leave Googler, who is one of the most well known Googlers to our audience, has spoken up about the claims that Google manipulated their search suggestions for Hillary Clinton.

He did this on Twitter…