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.
Google Images Bug Shows Russian Car Crash For All Queries?
It seems there is a wide spread bug or hack with Google Image search impacting a lot of users across the world.
When they search for anything within Google Image Search…
Google Teapot Easter Egg Uses Mobile Gyroscope
The other day, we reported on how Google handles the server 418 status code, which stands for I’m a teapot.
Well, Google has their own page for it at google.com/teapot and it not only returns a proper 418 status code but if you:
(1) Click on the teap…
Google Shows Traffic By Transportation Modes In One Card
Google announced on Google+ that now you get all four transportation modes (car, transit…
Google AdWords Design Update: Kennedy Phase Two
Google shared on Google+ that they have updated the design for the AdWords reporting interface ever so slightly.
I believe Google internally called this update…
Google: SSL Errors Do Not Currently Impact HTTPS Ranking Boost
As you know, Google is giving a tiny ranking boost to HTTPS URLs.
But I was under the impression the HTTPS URLs must be really secure and that broken/invalid SSL certificates and content mismatch errors would invalidate the ranking boost. I was wrong!
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Althea Gibson As Tennis Player A Google Doodle
On the Google home page today in the United States is a special Google logo, aka Google Doodle, for the 87th birthday of Althea Gibson. She is known by many as one of the greatest tennis players ever but more importantly…
Google Search Now Understands More Than One Language At A Time
Google announced it can now understand more than one language spoken in the same speaking session. Google said, “with the Google Search app on Android…
How I Deal With SEO Outsourcing Calls
If you are anything like me, you get several sales pitches a day, including one or two requests from companies to outsource your SEO or web development to them. My company on average gets three phone calls a day with SEO and web development outsourcin…
Amazon Working On Google AdSense Competitor?
Amazon is reportedly working on their own ad network to compete with Google and Microsoft Bing’s ad business.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc…
Beware Of Google Matt Cutts Impersonators
Truth is, this is nothing new, people have been impersonating Matt Cutts since the GoogleGuy days. I’ve seen many comments here from “Matt Cutts” that were indeed not from Matt Cutts, I’ve seen people claim Matt emailed them when he did not…
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 22, 2014
This week in search, I cover Matt Cutts doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and I then do it live (I slowed that part down to make it more dramatic) in the introduction of the video and nominal Googleâs John Mueller & Search Engine Landâs Matt McGee and Greg Sterling. Googleâs Amit Singhal posted