Category: Google Search Engine

Google seems to be stepping up showing more and more images in the search results, inline with the snippets. Over the past few weeks…

Back, a hundred internet years ago, Google bought 466453.com and then after using it for years as their SMS search feature, Google pulled the feature offline in March 2013.

Well, now, 466453.com no longer goes anywhere, it 404s…

Google has been testing different color filter button icons in the image search results for some time now and it seems it is fully launched now on both desktop and mobile…

Google shared a new report in the Transparency Report for HTTPS both by Google properties and the top sites on the web.

It appears that Google has encrypted 77% of their traffic to date but is aiming to go to 100%…

Google is testing a new format for the news carousel that lets users swipe between categories of news. This new carousel will show both AMP and non AMP news in the top news section…

Google announced they expanded their travel search to let you plane your whole vacation to destinations around the world and quickly give you pricing overviews for flights…

Google announced they are moving all of their Google Blogs from the blogspot.com domain to the googleblog.com domain.

Why are they doing this…

Mike Blumenthal first spotted this new social sharing feature which Greg Sterling named local business cards in Google.

In short…

Did you know you can search Google for animal sounds…

Google has this very cool “featured snippet” or knowledge graph panel for the elections that breaks down each candidates platform by issue. All you need to do is search for the candidate name and on the issues…

August 2015 we captured Google testing image button filters in mobile. Since then, Google has been testing colored based filter icons on desktop as well…

Yesterday at SMX West, Behshad Behzadi of Google said Google is indeed working on bringing voice search capabilities to shopping…

Last week, we reported that the news box was removed from Google Finance results and was replaced by an ad box.

Well…

Some Google users, including myself, are seeing a new popup at the top right of Google.com when you are logged into Google. The pop up reads, “Control your privacy and security. Click your profile icon to access your Google account…

We know Google indexes PDFs, it is clear, we see them in the index. We also know Google will follow and pass PageRank in links found within PDF documents…

I am hearing reports that Google Finance has replaced the News section on the right panel with an advertisement box. I checked Google Images for Google Finance screen shots and confirmed that in the past six months Google had a news box on the right s…

Nat and Lo work at Google, they do this video blog of how things work at Google by talking to the Googlers who work on them. It is part of their 20…

Terence Mace spotted and posted on Twitter two of the same pages listed in the Google search results from Google because Google seems to have misconfigured their hreflang and canonicals.

The query is done on Google.co…

Back in 2006, Google built a feature to make web sites load faster on mobile devices named Web Transcoder. It was specifically designed for those old feature phones and not the smart phones.

But last week…

Dr. Pete Meyers shared on Twitter that Google may have recently added a “may treat” section to some medical queries. The example he shared was a search for [dulcolax]…