Category: Google Search Engine

Google Answers is pretty controversial amongst webmasters but Google has said time and time again, why they source certain places and it does not substitute the web page itself. In any event…

One thing I do all the time and hate to do is figuring out a good time for a meeting between my location, New York and places overseas, like in Australia, Israel, the UK and so forth.

There are web sites that do the conversion, but I find it always c…

Google announced yesterday on Google+ that Google Trends at google.com/trends now has a new feature to show you the top 200 trending videos on YouTube.

Currently it works in the US…

Eric Enge posted on Google+ a summary of what he published on Search Engine Land on how the answer box on Google is being tested constantly…

Google’s new format for news in the web search results, named In The News that launched in early October, seems to now have launched internationally.

Kenichi Suzuki spotted it in Japan and posted the details on Google+…

In early September, Google announced the new Sitelinks Search box. It basically enables you to control how the search box within Google’s search results sitelinks works with your site, that is…

Videos in the Google search results use to be one of the most popular vertical search features you’d find in the search results. But it is happening less often these days.

Some SEOs say 68% less often…

Rand Fishkin spotted this subtle test by Google and posted it on Google+.

Google seems to be testing bolding the matching keywords to your search query in the title (clickable link) of the search results for users who are logged out but not for users …

A week or so ago, Google replaced the news box in the web search results with a box named In The News. The name change isn’t the big deal, the big deal is that more than just Google News approved sources show up in the box…

Earlier this month we saw Google testing mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results. Then yesterday we saw Google testing not mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results. Now…

Earlier this month, we reported Google began testing mobile friendly icons in the mobile search results, again. They did this back in August as well. But now…

Google announced on Google+ that they can now remind you to pay your bills via Google Now. Plus, if you search for [Show me my bills] or [My bills due this week] and you have emails in your Google account with bills…

Google is migrating much of their infrastructure over to HTTPS still and the next thing is the feature to enable network administrators, mostly for schools…

Back in August 2012 we saw Google testing smartphone icons in the search results and then they went away. Google seems to be testing that again.

Artem Russakovskii from Android Police spotted it in the wild, as have others…

If you check out the Mozcast features tool, you may notice that the Answers box tracker shows a huge increase in the Google search results.

This means that according to this tool, Google is now showing answers to queries at the top of the search res…

Mark Traphagen posted on Google+ that Google started dropping a lot of the Google+ elements you’d find in the Google Knowledge Box on the right hand side of the page…

The other day we reported on why and when Google shows or does not show credit links for quick answers in the knowledge graph areas. Today…

Colin McDermott posted on Twitter that Google shows a malware warning on the organic free search result for a site but not on the paid search ad…

One of our Indian readers from Arindam Inc. sent me a screen shot via email of Google now using the Lakh numbering format for the estimated search results count.

A lakh or lac is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to one hundred thousan…

Gianluca Fiorelli asked on Twitter why does Google sometimes show the source of their answers in the knowledge graph or quick answers and then sometimes does not…