Category: Google Search Engine

It appears that some major news publications such as USA Today and the BBC are tricking Google News to rank their older stories at the top of the Google News sections.

By tricking I mean…

A Google Web Search Help thread has complaints about a recent bug on the Google Advanced Search page.

By the bottom area where it says “You can also…”…

Rob Garner posted publicly on Facebook an image of a new Google test where Google is showing news results from Google+ in the OneBox area for news content within web search results…

Mike Downes posted a neat Google search trick on Google+ where you can search by voice on Google Desktop without having to click the microphone icon with your mouse. Instead, you press control (on Mac, command)…

In December, we reported that Google was asking searchers to help improve Google. Well, those micro surveys to ask searchers which search results they prefer have not gone away.
Kevin Anchi posted on Google+ more screen …

In 2009, Google launched a feature that let you filter your search results by web pages you have not yet visited. That feature went offline…

There are dozens of reports and complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums that the Google iOS App keeps logging users out over and over again. This can be frustrating to those who want to use personalized features such as Google Now or other sav…

Aaron Bradley spotted a new format for Google News results in the web search results, in the form of Google Cards. He posted this nice explanatory image on Google+…

Google News announced three new changes to the Google News portal and is testing another Google News feature.

The announced changes include that Google is adding a sports box on some pages…

I just can’t get over how ugly and unattractive some of the Google search results have come with the addition of the expanded local carousel.

I thought maybe I was the only one who felt it was ugly but no, many do. The reactions on Twitter, via email …

Search Google for your domain name, and if that doesn’t work try [seroundtable.com] – you should see ten large sitelinks come up under the main site listing:

Searching for the brand name…

As you know, authorship in the search results is a big deal. In fact, I am missing my face big time in the search results. But now, it seems that Google was testing Google+ company logos in the search results.

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This is not new, I actually covered it at Search Engine Land a year ago but never here and I think some of my more geekier readers will enjoy it if they have not seen it. Search Google for [hex], [binary]…

Search Google for [gay], lesbian], [homosexual] or related terms and you will see Google convert the search box to…

As I reported at Search Engine Land via Google Operating System – Google has decommissioned the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator from working.

Google’s Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist…

I am sure my readers will have a field day with this screen shot. Search for [treatment for ibs] and take a look at the search results.

By default you will see 3 ads on the top…

Search Engine Land reports that despite Google not confirming anything, Google has removed the “quick view” button from the smart phone mobile search results…

Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new way to explore related searches within image search through an image carousel…

One of the most common complaints I see in the Google forums is how does one remove content from Google’s search results…

Googlers Mike LeBeau, who is in charge of search within Glass and Amanda Rosenberg, the product manager of Glass…