Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google announced on Google+ that they added TV episodes to the knowledge graph.

So now when you search for a specific TV show, Google will show you upcoming episodes…

Google Alerts has seen some maintenance by Google’s engineers recently. It added back the RSS option after losing it. There were also reports of the alerts not working for many.

In the past few weeks or so…

I spotted a thread at the Google Web Search Help forums, where one searcher was sad to notice that his name didn’t come up in Google’s Bacon Number results for being on the Price is Right with Drew Carey…

A couple weeks ago, Google’s Matt Cutts shared on Google+ a way to see the old 1998 search results on Google.

Google made this easter egg on their 15th birthday to show people how far Google has come…

As you know, Google originally announced SSL search back in 2011 where it would impact “less than 10% of their users.” Now, it is impacting over 90% of users and thus showing [notprovided] to webmasters and marketers about 90% of the time…

In August, Google launched a stopwatch like feature where you can search for [set timer for X] and Google would launch a stopwatch timer.

This feature has stopped working.

It use to work somewhat like this, as I captured in our animated GIF…
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Ilya Grigorik, a Google Developer Advocate, specifically working on making the web faster, announced quietly on Google+ that they just launched a new feature that will make mobile search faster by 200-400 milliseconds…

Part of the big Google announcement from the other week was a better and smarter knowledge graph…