Google Search Adds Phone Numbers That Dial Via Hangouts
Google has now added phone numbers that hyperlink to Google Hangouts for voice dialing and calling.
If you search for your favorite place on Google Local, Google may show a big phone number…
Google’s Gay Pride Banner Live In Search Results
Every year for Gay Pride Month, Google has dressed up their top bar, like they do for the year-end holidays, with rainbow colors. This year, the colors are much more vibrate…
Google Flight Search Gets Full Screen & I’m Feeling Lucky Button
Google Flight Search has announced new features, they include:
(1) Full Screen Mode (2) Most Popular Destinations (3) I’m Feeling Lucky Button…
Google Car Search Discontinued
Dan Barker posted on Twitter that google.com/cars no longer works.
In 2012, Google launched Google cars that allowed you to search for cars by make, model, year, color and so on. That is now gone…
Google Chrome Desktop Now With Okay Google Voice Detection
Google announced yesterday on Google+ that Chrome, Google’s popular browser, now supports the ability to say “Okay Google” to activate voice search by default from the Google search page…
Faces Go Missing From Google’s Search Results For About 75 Minutes
Yesterday, the SEO space got into a bit of a panic when Google suddenly dropped authorship images from their search results page.
Twitter Twitter and Google+ went made (I am just sharing one thread from each but there were tons)…
Google News: Where Did The Charleston Newspapers Go?
A Google News Help thread has complaints from those who enjoy to read the various Charleston Newspapers that Google News is no longer indexing or showing them in the Google News results.
The first report came on April 30th but complaints still are bei…
Google Search App For iOS Gets More Voice Friendly
Google announced on Google+ that they’ve upgraded the iOS Google Search App.
The new app is labelled version 4.0 and is available for download in the App Store…
Google Search App Adds Parking Reminders, Indoor Maps, In-Store Products & Offline Cards
Google announced on Google+ that the Android version of the Google Search App has been updated to support a bunch of new features, including reminding you where you parked your car.
When you park your car, Google may ask you, do you want to be reminde…
Google Image Search On Android Not Functioning Properly
There are dozens of reports in the Google Web Search Help forum and Android Central that Google Images is not working properly on specific Android phones and tablets…
Google Restaurants Filter By Price, Ratings, Cuisine & Hours
Google announced on Google+ that you can now search restaurants in your area and now even filter by price, ratings, cuisine and hours of operation. I am not sure if this is a really new feature but if you haven’t used it…
Google Indexing Bing’s Jellyfish
Back in 2007, Microsoft acquired Jellyfish.com, a comparative shopping engines.
Sometime recently…
Google Hot Searches Email Subscriptions
Google announced you can how subscribe to Hot Searches for any country or the top US charts via email.
This way…
Google Now Flight Reminders Too Late?
Google announced yesterday on Google+ that not only will Google Now show you your boarding passes and flight status but also tell you when it is time to leave to the airport, so you won’t miss your flight. It has had this feature for a while, I believ…
Google Video Search Results Without Videos Thumbnails
Google loves showing video thumbnails in the search results, when the query seems to be answered with a video. You know…
SEOs Calling Out Google’s Matt Cutts As A Hypocrite?
On Friday, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of fighting all evil web spam, posted on Twitter an interview he gave to the usesthis.com blog. It is basically a place where a guy named Daniel interviews nerds about what hardware they use…
Wired Hacked Over Weekend; Google Blocks Wired.com
Over the weekend, Wired.com was being blocked by Google via Chrome and the search results for malware.
In short…
Google UK Adds In-Depth Articles
In August of last year, Google introduced in-depth articles in the US search results. Since then, Google has upgraded the design and functionality of those articles a couple times…
Site Blocked In Google Over Suspected Child Abuse Content
Google and search engines have an obligation to remove child abuse and child pornography from their search results. But what happens when your site is labeled as having such content…
Google’s Navneet Panda Gets A Published Patent But Was It The Panda Patent?
A couple days ago, Bill Slawski posted his usual Google has a new patent granted, this one he titled Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results.
The patent was granted on the 25th and is named Ranking search results…