Category: Google Search Engine

If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and go to Google, the default experience will not be over SSL and thus the referrer data will pass in full to the webmaster…

Google is rolling out a way to customize the apps and products you want to see in your Google navigation bar.

Google announced this on Google+ saying that this is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone. Here is an animated GIF of how it will…

A Google Web Search Help thread has someone who works at a company named BeyondTrust. The company has a knowledge graph come up for a Google search on the company name…

Earlier this year, Bing activated SSL as an opt in option, the only way to see it was to go to https://www.bing.com/ directly. By default, Bing, unlike Yahoo and Google, is not SSL.

But if you search for Bing on Google…

Google officially announced on Google+ that Google can now solve your geometry homework.

Google said…

Google has added a new feature for those using the Chrome browser on their desktop or laptop – Google Now integration.

Google announced this on Google+…

As Alex covered, Google Alerts has added a new way to filter down the alerts you get from Google. Some alerts can be overwhelming, so Google added a way to filter by region and language.

So now at google…

Go to your Google Search App on your smartphone and Google the words, [Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right].

Google will respond in voice saying…

A WebmasterWorld thread links to a story that says Google has recently begun defaulting to Google’s secure, encrypted search worldwide…

As expected, Google was testing a new design for some time now and now it is officially rolling out to everyone.

Jon Wiley, the Lead Designer for Google Search…

No we didn’t! Google’s Matt Cutts on Twitter last night responded to a tweet by A.J. Kohn about Google posting a change log. Matt Cutts responded on Twitter that they did indeed do that, they did, but “the world got bored.”

Last night at SMX West, during the keynote conversation with Google’s Amit Singhal, Danny Sullivan brought up the knowledge graph a few times and then Dan Barker’s tweet about scraper sites…

I use currency conversion through Google when I travel a lot but one currency I never thought to convert was “proper money.” A search for [1 USD in proper money] converts $1 US to British Pound Sterling if you are searching while in the UK but when yo…

In mid-2013 Google began experimenting with a new feature in the search results that went live as in-depth articles in August of last year. Since then they have been experimenting with them to make them richer looking but here is a test to make them l…

We’ve covered many Google user interface tests and we’ve seen the bigger Google fonts in the search results…

Late Friday, Google announced on Google+ that they now show restaurant menus in the search results. This is something we noticed

Google Chrome announced that the beta version of the Chrome browser now supports completely hands free searching.

Just open a new tab and say “okay Google” and then speak your query.

This is being rolled out to English (U.S…

Dr. Pete Meyers from Moz spotted another Google user interface test, this one with the knowledge graph box where Google is showing local results with example reviews directly in the box.

Pete said…

Yesterday we reported on the blink HTML Google easter egg where the search results blink in and out. Today, there is another easter egg to report on…

Google’s Ilya Grigorik who works on the Google Chrome team posted on Google+ a neat new easter egg in the Google search results…