Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google is testing showing 3 and a half stories in the top stories carousel in search. We’ve seen tons of top stories user interfaces over the years and I believe I’ve seen this as well, but I can’t find if I covered it before. So here it is.

Go to Google.com and just type into the search box “what” and you will see Google suggest the search phrase what does the antsð¡ð mean. This is no joke, here is a screen shot I took of it myself.

I think this is new, a new way to report images as being offensive or having issues in Google’s main web search results. Sunny sent this to me on Twitter and I think it is new, but basically there is a “report images” button that when you click it, it…

In the past 24 hours or so, I had numerous reports sent to me that searchers are seeing only URLs for the Google search results snippets. The title and description portion of the snippets were missing.

Amit Singh shared a screen video capture of a new form of video results in the mobile Google search results. This one shows a video result with a section named “in this video.” The “in this video” section gives you a timeline in the video of what is be…

The folks at RankRanger are showing data that on average, the title tag length shown in the Google desktop search results have gone down from 55.3 characters to 50.9 characters on average.

To be honest, I am not sure if this is new, but I am being told this is new. The first is what looks like an organic product grid, where Google shows product selections for a query in a new grid like format. The second are paid Google shopping ads th…

Eric Hedekar from Moz, formerly STAT, said that now about half of the videos shown in the Google mobile results have changed in terms of how they are displayed. Instead of the carousel video format, Google is showing more of a list view according to Er…