Category: Google Search Engine

On Google, search for [Bletchley Park] and then watch the right hand knowledge graph box decipher the code to spell out Bletchley Park. That is the latest Google Easter Egg on their search results.

Another One Bites the Dust… The lyrics business just got hit big, Google is now showing detailed lyrics for many song titles in the search results…

Google Image search back inJanuary 2013, changed their design to show a preview of the image, directly in the Google Image search results, behind a black bar.

Google Germany seems to have dropped that feature. Via Martin Ice Web in the WebmasterWorld…

Google seems to have dropped the feature to click on the breadcrumb links within the search results snippet. For example, here is an image of a snippet in the search results that displays the breadcrumb:

Back at some point in time…

Yesterday on Search Engine Land I reported how some users were seeing image thumbnails in the mobile friendly Google results, within the search results snippets. I received a screen shot from an iOS user.

This morning…

Over the past couple months, many Google Now users on Android have been complaining that their Google Now cards are not always loading due to an error that says “no internet connection.”

There is a bunch of threads about this…

The day has come where you can not ask Google to trigger some sort of action in your home.

It starts with Google’s acquisition of Nest, where now you can control the temperature in your home by saying…

Google announced their top searches for 2014, something they do every year – with an emotional video to recap those top searches.

We got Robin Williams, World Cup, Ebola, MH370, ALS, Flappy Bird, Conchita Wurst, ISIS…

Google has brought back the ability to search the news archive this weekend…

Google announced a redesigned iOS app for their Google App is now live in the Apple App Store.

The new app flows with the new Material Design look Google is switching many of their product interfaces to…

Google’s speed guru, Ilya Grigorik, announced on Google+ that they’ve made Google mobile search a bit faster…

Menashe Avramov was messing around in the search results, like all good SEOs do, and he discovered a weird layout bug with the search results snippets in both Google and Bing around infinite ascii types of queries. He shared a screen shot or two on Go…

Pete Meyers from Moz posted on Google+ that he spotted a new Google Answer for the search [interest calculator], which brought up a mortgage calculator box…

Google’s Dennis Troper announced on Google+ that you can now, like other social networks, pin your favorite post to the top of your stream. So if you want people to see a specific post first, you can pin that post and even if it is weeks old…
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Here is a new format for the Google Answers box you typically see at the top of the search page when doing a question based or fact based query. This new answer box lets the user slide or scroll the box to see more answers from additional sources…
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Google News has added a new section that gives you personalized news based on your search and Google+ related follows, I believe…

Google has at least two new easter eggs available in the web search results, these easter eggs are about trying your chances.

(1) [roll a dice] or other variations around that will return a Google Answer that rolls a single dice for you…

Now when you search for certain celebrities or well-known personalities, Google may show links and icons to their social profiles within the Google Knowledge graph panel.

For example, if you search for [Barack Obama] you get to his Twitter, Facebook…..

Google has been asking searchers randomly to rate the web search results for as long as I can remember. But I’ve never seen anyone report or notice Google asking mobile searchers to rate the search results…

Google’s In The News box which launched over a month ago has been shown to have some weird content found within it but sponsored post and content is something I have not seen reported yet.

Chipper Nicodemus noticed one yesterday and shared a picture o…