Category: Other Google Topics

Ilya Grigorik from Google, he is the man there obsessed with speed, SSL and mobile, has shared some interesting stats on the adoption of HTTPS across the top 300 sites on the web.

(1) HTTPS adoption for the top 300K sites has grown by 300%+ over the l…

Back in August, Google ripped our hearts out (okay, maybe a bit too strong of language) when they dropped authorship support completely…

Did you know Google has a specialized version of Google search but for pirates? We know they had for hackers, apple users, and the list goes on but for pirates, I had no idea.

You can access it at google.com/…

News via Reddit that Twitter is no longer supporting their Google Glass app. This is a major blow to Google Glass…

Gary Illyes, one of my favorite Googlers, posted on Google+ that Google wants to observe you as you work, with the sole intention of making their communication, support, and web-search related products, such as Webmaster Tools…

So it seems people actually use Google Voice search instead of their keyboard to search. When and who…

Maile Ohye of Google is one of the best people there are providing clear, concise…

Thomas Steiner, a PhD Customer Solutions Engineer for Google in Hamburg, Germany placed an order online at Lieferello for some cold beverages and in his order shipment box he found this colorful letter. In a sense, they bribed Thomas with an extra fre…

Back in July, Matt Cutts shocked the SEO industry by announcing his extended vacation – many thought he’d never come back. He has not come back yet, officially, so it is unclear if he will.

But for one thing, it does seem he misses the search qualit…

Today is the 16th birthday of Google and for the day…

Do you ever wonder what Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Googles? What is in the Matt Cutts Google search history box?

Well…

Yesterday we reported about Google targeting PBNs with massive manual actions. The funny thing, Google’s PR team would not confirm or deny it but Google’s Matt Cutts, who is currently on an extended vacation, took the time out to taunt and mock black h…

Google announced on the Google Webmaster Google+ account that they are hosting a series of Hangouts on Air to teach small and medium businesses how to develop an online marketing strategy…

Google’s Eric Schmidt posted on Google+, in an effort to promote their book, How Google Works, about Google’s Vice President of Product, Jonathan Rosenberg obsession with popping the balloons of Nooglers (new Googlers)…

In 2008, Google enabled an API for Webmaster Tools, since then they’ve been adding functionality to it slowly…

In late August, we reported that many searchers began seeing the old Google home page again. It turns out that this was not a bug but rather intended where Google began showing the older home page to older browsers on purpose, because of support issues…

If you try to use the YouTube Keyword Tool at youtube.com/keyword_tool you will not get very far.

Instead, you will be sent to a YouTube 404 page not found page…

It seems like Google is preparing to host a top contributor meetup in Munich…

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]…

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…