Google Mobile Search Descriptions Now Say If You’re Blocking Google

Yet another reason not to block JavaScript, CSS, etc from Google. It may negatively impact your snippet in the mobile search results now.

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Google Adds Song Lyrics With Deeper Links To Google Play

Google’s Knowledge Graph and Direct Answers takes a stab out of lyrics web sites, with new song lyrics answers.

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Google Knowledge Graph Carousel Gains “Breadcrumb” Navigation Links

Google has quietly added a small but important feature to their Knowledge Graph Carousel – a breadcrumb navigation link. If your search brings up the carousel and it references back to a higher-level knowledge graph panel, Google may show a link to the knowledge graph panel details. For…

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Google Puts Custom Ebola Info Box At Top Of Search Results & Offers To Match Donations To Help Fight Deadly Outbreak

Google announced today it has launched a public fundraising campaign to help support nonprofits fighting to contain the ebola virus outbreak, and is offering to give $2 for every $1 donated. The site has also added ebola information to its knowledge graph. A Google search for “ebola”…

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Google Testing A New Mobile Friendly Design Using Material Design Format

Google is testing a new mobile design interface, using the design principles from “material design,” that Google themselves has been heavily promoting. The new interface was first noticed by SEER Interactive and later by Android Police and Google Operating System shows how this is not a…

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Google Continues Testing Mobile Friendly Notices In Search Results, This Time With Text Version

Two weeks ago, Google began testing mobile-friendly icons in the mobile search results, next to sites that were mobile-friendly. Maybe giving a carrot to sites that adopted good mobile-friendly web site practices? Yesterday, Google tried the opposite a…

Google (Now) Beats Siri And Cortana For Direct Answers — Study

Stone Temple Consulting (STC) published a study in which it compared mobile answers to “3086 different queries” on Siri, Google and Cortana to determine how each performed relative to the others. Google was the winner with more direct answers and more complete information. Eric Enge who…

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Moz: Google’s New Quick Answer Box Now Showing 98% More Often

According to a Moz tracking study the new formatted quick answers box you find in Google for queries like [what is seo] is showing up 98% more often than a week ago. Overall, general answer boxes, including stock quotes, weather forecasts, box scores a…

Where You’ll Find Google Structured Snippets: From Superheroes To Product Specifications

The other day, Google officially announced structured snippets, basically knowledge graph snippets directly embedded in the search results snippets. But what type of queries trigger the structured snippets from showing up in the search results? Based o…

Google Structured Snippets Officially Live In Search Results

Earlier this month we caught Google testing a form of knowledge graph data within the search results snippet. This feature is now officially being confirmed by Google on the Google Research Blog. Google calls these “structured snippets,” where Google will show snippets of data, relevant…

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Google Knowledge Graph Now With “In The News” Box

Google has launched a new knowledge graph panel on the right side named “In the news.” If you search for [jill duggar], you will see the new box come up on the right hand side. If you click on the link that reads “Headlines & Global News,” you would think Google would…

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Google Allows Developers Integrate With Search Within Site Feature

Google announced a few changes to the search box you find within the Google search results. Often, when you search for a brand name, Google will add a search box within the search snippet result for that site. That box allows you to search within that …