Bing Offers Historical Knowledge Box: Search “On This Day”
Bing quietly announced on Twitter that if you search for [on this day] in Bing you may just get an historical knowledge box showing you important and historical events that happened on this day in the past…
New Google SOS Alerts In Search
Google announced a new search and maps feature that provides SOS alerts for locations and events that are in crisis. Google wrote “SOS alerts is a new set of features in Google Search and Maps to help you quickly understand whatâs going on and decide what to do during a crisis…
Google Docs On Removing AMP Content From Search
Google has added a new developer document page on removing AMP content from search. This was first spotted by Kenichi Suzuki, he posted it on Twitter.
I guess enough people asked, Google finally made a document telling webmasters the safe way to remo…
Google: Logos In People Also Search For Feature
Google has been messing around lately with the people also search for feature in the search results. Here is a new one, I believe…
Google Local Panel Tests Questions & Answers Box
Sergey Alakov spotted yet another test, this one is where Google is testing showing a questions and answers box in the local panel.
RankRanger: 99% Of Google’s Page One Results Have At Least One HTTPS Result
HTTPS in the Google search results continue to rise and rise. In fact, according to RankRanger’s Google’s feature tracker tool, 99% of the page one results they track have at least one or more HTTPS result within them…
Google Now Rolling Out Carousel Based Sitelinks
It seems like Google is now rolling out the carousel based sitelinks they have been testing for over a year now…
OMG: Google Tests Auto-Playing Videos In Search Results
Yesterday, Jennifer Slegg posted on Twitter and her site that Google is auto-playing videos directly in the search results. I will be honest…
Michelle Robbins & Ginny Marvin: Search Engine Land’s New Leads
With all my focus around the negative news (which I tend to focus on a lot) with Danny leaving and Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land as well – the amazing news around the new leaders of Search Engine Land have somewhat got brushed under the rug…
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Google Tests “See More Results” Button Instead Of “Next” Button
Google is testing a new button in the mobile search results to encourage searchers to click to the second page of the results. Instead of showing a basic grayed out “Next” button…
Google Pushes AMP Growth Internationally
The folks at RankRanger posted on Twitter two signals that Google is pushing the AMP growth internationally now.
AMP results are now showing way more often in the news box internationally…
Webmaster Lost Everything Over Google Ranking Spammy Content?
I just read a really sad message in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread from a webmaster nicknamed browndog. This user shared that she has lost everything over Google ranking spammy, low quality content…
Google Adds A Search Box To Dictionary Results & Past Searches
Last week Google added a search box to the dictionary search results answer at the top of the page…
Is The SEO Industry Doomed With So Many Departures Recently?
In the past couple months or so, we had some significant departures of key personalities from the SEO industry. First with Danny Sullivan retiring, then with the news around Rand Fishkin leaving Moz and then Matt McGee leaving Search Engine Land…
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Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Media Theorists, Gets A Google Logo
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, aka Doodle, for Marshall McLuhan. Marshall McLuhan was a well-known Canadian professor, philosopher…
Gary Illyes Favorite Google Offices: Zurich, Tel Aviv & Tokyo
Gary Illyes, one of our favorite Googlers, has revealed on Twitter which are his favorite Google offices. If you know Gary, he travels a lot for both business and pleasure – both on land…
YouTube Video Editor Going Offline On September 20, 2017
So Google decided to kill off the YouTube Video Editor and also the Photo slideshows within YouTube as of September 20…
Google Search Console Adds Job Listings & Details Filters To The Search Analytics Report
Google announced on Twitter that there is a new filter available within Google Search Console’s Search Analytics report under the search appearance section for both “job listings” and “job details…
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Console News, Google User Interface Changes & AdWords Report Editor
This week in search, we saw a preview of the new Google Search Console that is in beta. Google also changed how they report in Search Analytics the impressions and average…
Google Design Tests Continue With Light Blue & Green Interface
Google is continuing their design tests which has been going on with many various user interface tests for about a year now.
The latest shows the colorful three dots…