Category: Google Search Engine

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…

Over a year ago, Google announced they are closing iGoogle 16 months later on November 1, 2013. Well, November 1st is about 30 days away and to remind iGoogle users…

In September we predicted Google would launch a new white navigation bar and they indeed announced they would a week or so later. Very few have seen it since…

Another addition to what was announced and launched this Sunday are filters on some knowledge graph results.

Here is an example:

As you can see, Google added a filter option, which shows various filter options. I used it to show a list of abstract …

What I did not mention and forgot about was the features Google Trends had prior that were removed quietly over time. Some of the “explore” features dropped out.
Why were they removed?

Google Image Search on iOS 7 seems to have reverted back to the legacy interface.

Instead of showing a full screen preview of the image…

Search Google for an artist name plus the word songs. For example, search for [neil young songs] and you should see a new knowledge graph carousel with the songs from the artist at the top…

Today is Google’s birthday, they are now 15 years old. I am currently offline today, so I am not able to check out the Google Doodle (Google Logo) for the day but I have a strong feeling it will look like the cupcake and images used in the 15K race.
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Google quietly announced on Google+ via Zaheed Sabur, a software engineer at the company, that you can now search for hashtags on Google.com and see results from Google+.

Almost a full week before Google officially announced the new white bar, we predicted Google would launch the new white bar over the next few days. Okay, so I was a bit eager, and it took 3 additional days to become official…

Are you a Rugby fan…

If you search for the famous photographer on Google, [terry richardson] you will see the knowledge graph come up and give a nice accurate description of the photographer. But the picture, well, you will see a picture of the President of the United Sta…

The Syrian Arab News Agency doesn’t show up in Google when you search for [Syrian Arab News Agency] but it does come up in Bing when you search for [Syrian Arab News Agency]…

Google announced they have added a new section to Google Trends named Top Charts.

This new feature shows you by category what is trending now…