Category: Google Search Engine

Google launched something just awesome yesterday, it is called Gboard. It is essentially an iOS (iPhone) keyboard add on but it technically brings Google search directly into every app that you use a keyboard with on iOS…

A week ago, we reported about Google testing wider margins in the search results interface. Well…

Google is testing showing black links in their search results listing pages instead of the typical blue links. Google has red links in Google China, but has never had other colors being used for the blue links in other regions…

Bill Elward posted on Twitter that for a search on [personal loan] in Google, Google is displaying an unusual featured snippet. It looks like an extended version of a featured snippet…

Yesterday, @oozn noticed Google testing wider, larger, bigger margins and spaces between the search result snippets. Giving more white space…

Some of the folks over at WebmasterWorld are noticing a new referrer coming from Google that comes from the string com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.

Interestingly, that is the name of the Android app APK for the Google Search app on Android…
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Google may be testing showing the Google Partner logo in the web search results when the Google partner URLs show up in the web search results…

Google released an update for the iOS search app that resolves the issue with a muffled and low-volume voice prompt. Version 14.1 of the app says “fixed a bug causing low audio volume for some users…

As you all know, Google is constantly testing user interface changes in their search results. Here is a new one, they are testing changing the color of the hyperlinks in the Google search results listings page from a darker blue to a lighter blue…
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The Google News blog announced Google News is now amplified, meaning…

Google announced they are adding to their TV search capabilities by adding which channels and apps are live broadcasting/streaming a specific show…

This is an interesting one, Google is always testing features and it seems I missed this back in late January. But Google is testing one where the auto-complete feature is showing you trending searches, as opposed to just ordinary most common searches…

@pizzaseoEN posted on Twitter a UTF-8 experiment done by @dusoft around making your title tags stand out more in Google’s search results.

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I am not sure if this is a bug or not but Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz reported on his Mozcast features tool that in-depth articles are completely gone as of this weekend.

Pete verified the data manually and said there is no sign of them at all…

In a live Google hangout with John Mueller this morning on Google+, John said that Google doesn’t set up test sites for the most part to test and experiment with the search results…

A month ago, Pete Meyers from Moz asked if featured snippets are on other Google search results outside of the US. Gary Illyes from Google responded on Twitter saying he believes it is only available in about 10 additional locales…

Google seems to have launched movie listing results that link directly to Fandango’s web site or mobile app. If you search for local movie listings in Google, Google will output them and link you over to Fandango to do the final purchase…

Aaron Friedman of Five Blocks captured and posted on Twitter that Google has modified the knowledge graph to add a share feature and it also looks like the company URL with the globe next to it is new also…

Google announced they are expanding the save image feature in Google Image search from mobile search to desktop search. It is pretty simple, you search for images, click on the image…

If you search Google for [metronome] on your desktop or mobile device, you will see an interactive metronome. A metronome is a device used by musicians…