Does Google Private Search Tool Work?
Mark Traphagen wrote on Google+ that Google has discontinued the Private Results option in the Search Tools section of the Google search results.
Truth is…
On Labor Day, Google Skips A Doodle Again
Today is Labor Day in the United States of America and like every year, Google doesn’t do a special Google Logo, aka Doodle, for the day. Instead, they’ve been placing a small American flag approximately 80 pixels below the Google search box…
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Google AdSense Paginated Ads (Click On The Circle)
This morning I spotted Google testing or maybe pushing out a new AdSense format that enables the ad to have more than one page of content.
In the screen shots below, you will see an AdSense ad with two circles at the bottom center of the ad…
Google Top Contributor Meetup In Munich
It seems like Google is preparing to host a top contributor meetup in Munich…
Google’s New Home Page Disabled For More Browsers
Last week, we reported that many searchers began complaining they were getting the old Google home page but Google is actually doing this on purpose. This is not a bug. If you see the old Google home page that has a black top navigation bar, it is by…
What Google, Amazon & Domino’s Pizza Have In Common? Drones!
Google X announced they are also working on flying delivery drones, just like their friends at Amazon and Domino’s Pizza.
Google announced this on Google+ saying:
Introducing Project Wing from Google[x]…
Google Bringing Back Old Design Or A Bug?
Many folks are reporting in the Google Web Search Help forums that Google is bringing back the old design that has either the black top bar or the gray top bar.
There are people who can see it in all sorts of browsers including Opera, Firefox, Safari….
BingBot As GoogleBot? Maybe, If It Crawls Google’s PageSpeed Tool
A savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content…
Google Kills Off Their Authorship Support
Last night, Google’s John Mueller was tasked to announce on his personal Google+ account that Google has dropped support for authorship, completely.
Yes, completely. They simply removed it from their search results interface and from behind the scene…
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 29, 2014
This week at the Search Engine Roundtable, I cover a wide range of topics. I cover the extreme chatter around more Penguin vibrations. Google completely killed off their authorship support…
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2014
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:
Getting Chilly… Google Penguin 3…
Google Testing Green, Gray & Red Stars In Search Results
I am seeing reports from Twitter and WebmasterWorld and also via email, that Google is replacing the gold/orange stars in the search results with green stars.
Here is a screen shot
Google Profile Forum Levels Now Go To Ten
This is big news for those who participate often in the Google forums, they changes the levels of your participation from one through twenty to one through ten.
This is causing some people in the forums to feel they’ve been demoted…
Draw Your Symbol & Google Drive Will Search Related Ones
Using special characters in documents and web pages is fun and always a good way of expressing the ton of what you are writing about…
Bing Testing Card/Boxy Search Results Interface
Spotted today by @rgomezric, Bing is also testing a box/card like search results interface.
Getting Chilly… Google Penguin 3.0 Vibrations
I know, the boy who cried wolf, but my job here is to bring to you what the SEO community is buzzing about and they are buzzing about a possible Google Penguin update, or at least Google testing things that may imply Google is pushing out a Penguin upd…
Google+ Dying Again? Import Your Google+ Videos To YouTube
Google quietly launched a feature that lets you import your videos loaded into Google+ directly to your YouTube channel.
Keane from the YouTube team posted the information in the YouTube Forums saying:
We have launched a new feature that will allow y…
Facebook Explains How Their Spam Algorithm Will Fight Click Bait
Facebook announced that they are going to weed out click bait headlines and posts from the newsfeed because their users do not like them…
Yahoo Search Results Design Test More Card/Box Like
Yahoo is testing a new design for their search results page. The new design is drastically different, making the layout much more boxed in, more like a card look…
Testing… Bing Moves Navigation Bar Below Search Box
@rgomezric spotted a new Bing user interface test, where they moved the navigation bar below the search box.
Bing is testing three different flavors of this test and @rgomezric captured all of them.