Category: Google Search Engine

Last week, Dr. Pete at Moz posted Future SERP: A Glimpse at Google 2014. What he did was look at a bunch of the more recent Google interface tests, many we have been covering

The news this morning is that Google and Microsoft are working together to with the UK’s National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation to block and prevent child pornography images and other abusive images from their search engines…

Google quietly announced on the Android Google+ page an update to Google Now for Android users being pushed out now. The new features include news topics…

Google’s Moritz Tolxdorff shared a new Google Easter Egg when using Google Voice Search via Google+.

All you need to do is ask Google: “Okay Google: When Am I” and Google will respond:

The present, of course…

As reported by Glass Almanac, Google has added the Glassware page to the MyGlass portal.

Google announced yesterday the release of the updated iOS Google search app. It brings the “OK Google” prompt to search handsfree with the app plus a lot more. It has much better Google Now reminders, as well as some bugs…

I reported this at Search Engine Land on Friday and to be honest, it is not a feature most of you will benefit from, but if you want…

@Skitzzo shared a photo of a search he did on Google with me on Twitter showing just how vulnerable Google’s Knowledge Graph is.

A search for the [St Louis Cardinals] yesterday afternoon brought up information in Google’s Knowledge Graph sourced from…

Google has confirmed the reports of a bug where configuring your search preferences to non-instant results, set to show 100 search results on a page, stopped working.

The bug began sometime around October 18th…

As I covered at Search Engine Land, Google is discontinuing the saved searches interface within the Google+ circles drop down.

In early August, Google launched a new feature for a Google timer, but earlier this month, that feature stop working. Google did promise to fix it and they just did…

You know when you search for something in Google and click on a result, then come back later and search again…

Google seems to be testing a new interface for their search results.

Instead of showing the URL of the page, Google is showing the name of the site. They’ve done this before, in 2011 but never above the title of the search result…

There are dozens of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums from those running Windows 8.1 and running Internet Explorer 11. They are saying that Google looks all weird and runs in legacy mode.

Here is a picture from one user of the search re…

Google’s Search By Image, a feature launched in June 2011 is currently not working.

When you upload an image in any format, be it .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .tif, or .webp. Google will return an error message that reads, “The image must be in one of the …

Google announced on Google+ a new search feature that allows you to quickly calculate the tip you should give after your dinner date.

The default tip is 15% with Google’s tip calculator…

A Google Web Search Help thread has one searcher doing research on European Central Bank (ECB) content within Ireland…

If you search for an actor/actress in Google and then click on the “People also search for” section in the knowledge graph, Google will show you the bacon number or the connection/relationship between the first person you searched for and the second pe…

Google launched a neat fun search feature, a timer or stop watch feature back in August. About a week ago, the Google timer stopped ticking.

Yesterday…

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…