Category: Google Search Engine

Just about a month ago, Google revamped their search filters and dropped some filters, while dynamically showing different filters and in different order based on the query. So sometimes the “images” link will be in the second position…

The amount of emails I get pointing to a large or small site getting penalized is somewhat insane. There is often a spike in these emails after I cover a penalty on Search Engine Land or here…

A couple weeks ago, we reported how Google is showing longer answers for queries in the top of the search results. Now…

Searchers are noticing a new knowledge graph answer from Google regarding restaurant menus. If you search for a restaurant and add menu to the query, you may see the menu directly in the search results…

Let me start off with saying that this is not new, although I never really tried asking Google for the weather by saying. “Ok Google…

Florian Kiersch posted on Google+ an interesting screen shot of debugging the Google search results page.

The debug log seems to be about timing how long it takes some information to show up in the search results…

Last night, as soon as Google posted their Olympic Charter logo to make a statement about the anti-gay laws in Russia, I wrote a story on the new logo.

When I woke up this morning, there were over a hundred comments, mostly hateful, angry, hurtful,…

Minutes ago, Google posted their first Google Doodle, aka Google Logo, for the The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics that kicks off tonight. The logo shows the colors of the Rainbow Flag, also known as the LGBT pride flag…

Moz on Google+ noticed a new search result format showing up in the search results for videos.

When you do a search that triggers videos, I think only from YouTube…

You and I get them all the time, spammy emails from SEO companies telling us how they can get us more traffic and higher rankings in Google…

Via Chris Desrochers on Twitter, Google is now showing a date selector on the Google Knowledge Graph Carousel for some queries that benefit from it…

Google announced on Google+ that you can now search for [how far between X & Y] and Google will show you the distance in miles and map it for you.

So as this is being published, I am traveling from Tel Aviv to New York:

You can try it yourself…

Spotted via Moz and posted on Google+, Google is testing a new ad format for Google Play movie downloads.

Here is a search for [cars online], a very competitive search term, showing this new Google Play movie download where you can “watch online” the …

Google announced something they’ve been testing to include knowledge graph information on sites that are “notable”.

The notable sites are accompanied by little hyperlink drop downs that expand an overlay of information directly on the snippets…
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For those who subscribe to Google Alerts via email, it is hard to not notice the new formatted HTML emails you get for those alerts. Most …

Now when you search Google, the number of search filters have been removed, including the discussions filter. The number of filters or vertical options have been drastically reduced. Here is an example…

For those trying to set their SafeSearch to locked in Google, they were out of luck yesterday. The key was jammed…

P Koester posted on Google+ that when you search for the term [freezing] in Google Image Search you are not shown ice or snow or cold people – instead you are shown Asian cartoon…

Matt Cutts of Google tweeted that Google added a special feature to image search based on Lawrence Lessig’s request. The thing is, the feature has been available since 2009, Google just moved it up in a more prominent area…

Last week, we reported on a large number of PC users complaining that the Google search results were simply not showing up.

Google got to the bottom of it. Users using BullGuard, an internet security and antivirus application…