Google Search Testing Roboto Font For Snippets
Google is testing using Roboto font in the search results. Conrad O’Connell spotted this test and posted it on Twitter…
Google Search Auto Suggest Displays Knowledge Graph Data
Sometimes when you do searches at Google, the auto-complete suggestions offered in the search bar may show additional snippets of information
Google Search Now Warns Before You Visit Sites That Trigger Unwanted Downloads
Remember last week, many many sites noticed their site was labeled with this site may be hacked warnings in Google Search…
Google Mobile Search Testing Multi-Google Colored Line Breaks In Search Results
Several mobile users are reporting seeing a pretty colorful experience in the mobile Google search results. Google is showing line breaks and shading for each snippet in the mobile results, but instead of it being gray or black…
Google Tests Displaying Line Separators Between Organic Results?
Nicole Hess caught Google testing using a line separator in the search results between organic results. She posted a screen shot on Twitter and it does look legit…
Google “This Site May Be Hacked” Mass Warnings This Morning
As I visited the Google Webmaster Help forums, like I do a few times a day…
Google News Trending Topics Feature Disappears
The image on the right shows how Google News would typically show “trending topics” on the left hand news filter bar. But that no longer shows up on the left bar, instead you just see the general categories of news such as World, U.S…
Google Tests New Mobile Loading Slide Outs & Loading Patterns
Ruben Gomez spotted yet another Google test, this one on the mobile interface…
Google Health & Medical Queries Get Vastly Updated Knowledge Graph Look
Google announced they’ve been crawling the web for health and medical information and then had them fact checked by “medical doctors at Google and the Mayo Clinic for accuracy” and is soon going to be providing much more detailed medical and health rel…
Don’t Let Your Kids Look For Pictures Of Mommy In Google
It is not that uncommon for Google Image search to show nude photos, especially when you search for them, but also for queries you wouldn’t expect it…
Google Real Time Search Coming Back With Twitter Deal; Spammers Rejoice
Last night, Bloomberg reported that Twitter and Google struck a new deal to give Google access to their firehose of Tweets again…
Google News RSS Feed Bug Still Actively Being Fixed
Back in December, we reported on complaints that the Google News custom RSS feeds were not working. Google said back then it “will be resolved shortly,” but it was not and still is not…
Third-Party Apps In Google Now Cards
Google announced you can now see third-party apps in your Google Now cards on Android. This only works on Android with about 30 or so third-party apps…
Google.co.uk Chrome Users Sent To Google.com?
Last week I saw a story about Google redirecting UK Chrome users on their searches to Google.com versus Google.co.uk. I asked Google about it and they basically redirected me to the report IP problems form…
Google Android Material Design Movie Search Is Slick
Google quietly mentioned on Google+ that they are rolling out an update to how movie results are displayed on the Google Search App.
The new look and user interface looks much like Google’s material design approach. With smoothly scrolling and slide …
Google Initiates Campaign To Switch Firefox Users From Yahoo To Google
In November we reported that Firefox made a deal with Yahoo to become the default search provider, ultimately dropping Google. The search share numbers came out this week and Google, showing Google lost almost 2 percentage points of market share to Ya…
Google Translate App For Android & iOS Get Serious On Real-World Translation
Google announced a serious update to their Google Translate app for both iOS and Android. The iOS app adds a lot more functionality…
Google Report Child Trafficking Quick Answer
Google is proud to announce a new quick answer they have for a search on [report child trafficking].
Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal said on Google+ that “Every bit counts” when combatting human trafficking…
The Google Now Cards Bug Is Now Fixed
Last week, many users lost access to their Google Now Cards due to a weird bug. Google has fixed the issue over the weekend and many are now able to opt-in again to re-enable their device to get these cards…
Did Your Google Now Cards Go Missing? You Are Not Alone.
Many users of Google Now on iOS and Android devices are surprised to see that they are not seeing their typical Google Now Cards.
Google Now Cards would show users traffic to work or home, weather…