Today’s Google Logo Marks The 66th Anniversary Of The Roswell UFO Incident With A Video Game
In early July of 1947, sightings of an unidentified flying object were reported, along with crash remnants found near Roswell, New Mexico. While a public information officer from the Roswell Army Airfield initially published a release on July 8, 1947 stating a “flying disk” had been…
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Google July 4th Logo Answers The Question: When is Independence Day?
Today’s Google logo celebrates this year’s Independence Day with an interactive image of an illustrated family of dogs road tripping across the US. Set on the background of a paper map like your dad may have used before Google Maps, stars highlight trip locations across the country to…
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Google News OneBox Card Style
Aaron Bradley spotted a new look for the Google News OneBox results, as you would see them in the Google web search results. The new design for the news results in the web search results look more like “Cards” that Google has been using within their Google Now and mobile views. Here is…
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Google Logo Celebrates the 130th Birthday Of Franz Kafka
Today, Google’s logo celebrates the 130th birthday of one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, Franz Kafka. Born into a German-speaking family in Prague on July 3, 1883, Franz Kafka’s publishing career began with a number of short stories published in German literary…
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Google Testing Larger News Photos In Search Results
Google Operating System reports Google is testing showing larger photos in the News OneBox Google web results page. Often, when you search for news related topics in Google.com, Google will show news results at the top, middle or bottom of the results. This is part of Google’s universal…
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Google Logo Kicks Off The 100th Tour de France
Today’s Google logo marks the commencement of the 100th edition of the Tour de France. Covering a total of 3,404 kilometers (2,115.15 miles), the multi-stage bicycle race runs from Saturday June 29 through Sunday July 21. The 22 teams competing in the 2013 Tour de France are comprised of nine…
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Google News Adds Sports Scores & Weather To Homepage, Gives Business & Tech Sections Editors Picks
Google News has rolled out three updates, giving users quick access to sports scores and weather forecast from the News homepage, while adding Editors’ Picks content to the Business and Technology sections. The newly added ‘Sports Scores’ content highlights recent sporting event…
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Bing Updates Deep Links Management While Google Displays Up To Ten Sitelinks
Microsoft Bing announced changes to the way they allow webmasters to manage their “deep links” in the search results, while Google has quietly added up to ten sitelinks for a navigational query. Bing Deep Links Update Vincent Wehren, Senior Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Tools,…
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Google Celebrates 2013 Gay Pride Month With Rainbox Encased Search Box For LGBT Related Searches
For a number of years, Google has recognized Gay Pride Month by adding gay pride-inspired art to the Google search box on the results page of LGBT searches. This year, Google is marking Gay Pride Month 2013 with a 3D-styled rainbow encasing the search box: Google’s past support for Gay Pride…
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Google Drops Another Search Operator: Tilde For Synonyms
Google has quietly dropped another search operator, the tilde (i.e. ~) search operator. Google Operating System blog noticed the lack of support for the tilde operator over the weekend. Reportedly, Dan Russell, a Search Research Scientist at Google, co…
Google Image Search Adds Arrows To Browse Through Image Thumbnails
Google Operating System noticed that Google Image search added navigational arrows to browse through image search result large thumbnail by large thumbnail. When you load the image results, click on an image to see a larger preview, you will see arrows…
Google Testing “In-Depth Articles” Search Results, A New Rich Snippet?
Dr. Peter Meyers, the Marketing Scientist at Moz, formerly SEOmoz, tipped us off to a new Google search interface test. It appears Google is testing showing “in-depth articles” in the search results for local queries. In the screen shot below, Pete triggered these results by searching…
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Google Images Tests New Related Searches User Interface
Google Operating System reports Google is testing a new Image Search interface for related searches. The example given shows images for [nexus 7] and at the top is a carousel of related searches to the [nexus 7]. When you click on one of those related …
Google Tests Larger Video Thumbnails In Tablet Search Results
Google Operating System blog has screen shots of Google showing larger thumbnail images for videos that come up in the search results. The larger video thumbnails show up for the first video result on tablet devices. I personally tried to replicate thi…
Google Local Results Drops “More Results Near…” To “Improve” Local Search Experience
Google has quietly dropped yet another search feature, this one is related to local search results within a search on Google. Google has removed the “more results near…” link on local search results for queries with local intent. For example, if you search for [pizza] on…
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Google Testing Search Results Without URLs
Google is testing yet another user interface change – this time by not showing the URL of the search results on the page. @tecnonetblog tweeted that he spotted this test and posted images of it on Twitter. In the images below, you won’t see the URL, which is now green followed by an…
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Google Downplays Google+ With Updated Authorship Snippet?
Google has quietly changed the user interface for how they display the authorship snippet in the search results. The largest difference is that they removed the “more by” link that linked to additional stories written by that author. The other changes include that now clicking on the…
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Google Pulls Related Searches Filter Due To Lack Of Usage
Google has quietly removed the “related searches” option from the search tools menu within the Google search results page. When Google launched search options in October 2009, the option for “related searches” appeared on the left-hand side under the “standard…
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Google Experimenting With New Related Image Search Interface
Google appears to be trying on a new look for its related image search interface. While the standard interface for related image searches includes a list of the related image queries that only show image thumbnails when you mouse over the related searc…
Google Quick View Badge Field Trial
Google announced a new Google field trial experiment for a feature they’ve been quietly testing named Quick View. The Google Quick View badge is found on a select number of sites when a searcher uses Google Mobile search from their smartphone. The feature is currently working for Wikipedia on…
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