466453.com Now 404s; Google’s Old SMS Search Feature
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 Doodles Version Of Somewhere Over The Rainbow
This is pretty amazing, the samuraiguitarist used various Google Doodles (the ones that make sounds) to orchestrate the song…
Google AdSense Matched Content Ads Rolling Out
Google announced they are rolling out Matched Content ads units, which they began testing last year.
Google said:
Starting today…
Google Revamps Search Advertising Exam For Google Partners
Google has quietly updated, or as they put it, “revamped” the Search Advertising exam for Google Partners.
They posted this on the AdWords features change log but I have not seen anywhere else mention it…
Google’s Vernal Equinox Doodle
Today is the first day of spring and like every year, Google and the other search engines make a big deal out of it with a special logo or theme.
Google’s Vernal Equinox logo is an animated GIF of flowers blooming and the rocks enjoying…
Google: RankBrain May Adjust Weights Of Existing Search Ranking Signals
As you know, we’ve been living in a RankBrain world for some time in Google. Recently there has been some coverage on it around Google not fully understanding it…
Google Image Search Launches Colorized Filter Buttons
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…
Opt Out Of Google Feature Snippets With nosnippet Tag
Did you know you can opt out of showing up in the featured snippets box…
Google Can Drill Into Search Quality Raters Results To Learn More
At SMX West a few weeks ago, during Paul Haahr’s awesome presentation and Q&A…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 18, 2016
This week in search at the Search Engine Roundtable, we covered a possible Google update earlier in the week. We also reported that Google will be boosting…
The Jumping Shamrock On The Google St. Patrick’s Day Logo & More
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and like every year, the search engine get into their green spirit. Today…
New? Google Displaying Domain In Some AdWords Ad Titles?
Google seems to now show the domain name in the AdWords ad title in the Google search results. I am not sure if this is new or not…
SEOs Should Be More Respectful To Google Webmaster Trends Analysts
We, including myself, can often come off as giving Googlers a really hard time when it comes to certain things that happen there…
Google To Boost The Mobile Friendly Ranking Factors In May
Google announced that the mobile friendly ranking algorithm which launched on April 21, 2015 will be getting a ranking signal boost in the beginning of May…
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 2016
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
A Google Update Brewing…
Google Smartphone Crawler Will Drop iPhone User-Agent For Android
Google announced yesterday that they are updating their smartphone user-agent to a new user-agent on April 18th. The new user-agent drops the iPhone bit from the string and replaces it with Android…
Google Report On HTTPS Adoption Within Google & The Top Web Sites
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: RankBrain Does Not Currently Affect Crawling
Google has deployed RankBrain for some time and we know it is confusing so there are many questions out there on it.
One question posed to Google was how does RankBrain impact crawling on your web site. Does RankBrain determine how much Google will c…
Google: No, We Don’t Understand Text In Images
A question was posed to Google’s Gary Illye’s on Twitter if Google’s crawler and indexer understands the text embedded in an image, maybe through OCR or other techniques. I am surprised to hear Gary say no…
A Google Update Brewing? Showing Some Signals.
Over the past week or so, I have been waiting day by day because I really have this feeling that an update is about to kick off soon…