Google Assistant to get multiple new languages, distribution and skills
The Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and be able to offer mobile carrier customer support.
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Google launches new look for ‘people also search for’ search refinements
Go to a search result, click on a listing and then click back to the search results page on Google to trigger this yourself on Google desktop search.
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AMP Stories: the new Accelerated Mobile Pages format from Google
Does this doubling down on the mobile framework by adding the new, heavily visual and interactive format signal a more aggressive push toward AMP-only websites?
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Google gets in on mobile ‘story craze’ with new AMP Stories format
New, visually rich mobile content format is designed to generate more engagement from users.
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Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public
Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according to new data from Stone Temple Consulting.
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Study: 80% of Google Home results come from snippets
But they aren’t always the source of answers for Google Home.
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YouTube sets stricter rules on videos that can carry ads
Advertiser brand safety concerns are driving more changes at YouTube.
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Survey: Smart speaker ownership steals time from smartphones, TV, radio
The study suggests there are about 40 million devices in US homes today.
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SEO trends and Google changes to expect in 2018
Columnist Pratik Dholakiya explores current search trends and speculates on where the industry might be headed in 2018.
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Google says Assistant now on more than 400 million devices
Sales of Google Home smart speakers are considerably smaller.
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Search marketing to enjoy ‘late-stage renaissance,’ according to analyst firm
Privacy, brand safety and other factors will make paid search even more attractive to marketers going forward, according to Forrester Research.
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New search quality raters guidelines for Google Assistant and voice search evaluations
Google has quality raters specifically for voice search-related search results. These raters look for information satisfaction, length, formulation and elocution.
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Google again showing third-party reviews in local results
Program has been in place since 2016 and involves direct, opt-in integration.
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Hurricane Irma was the No. 1 top trending Google search in the US & globally for 2017
Google has released its top trending searches of the year, covering everything from the most searched people and news to celebrity break-ups.
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Have a question about Will Ferrell? Google may show you a video response directly from him
Google is serving up selfie videos from celebrities answering frequent questions about themselves.
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Google Lens an impressive start for ‘visual search’
While it makes lots of mistakes, it also gets lots of things right.
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Yahoo parent sues Mozilla for replacing it with Google as Firefox default search
Mozilla countersues and says that poor Yahoo search quality caused Firefox to lose market share.
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Google officially increases length of snippets in search results
Company says change is meant to provide more descriptive snippets.
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Google Local Questions & Answers now rolling out to desktop search
Searchers and businesses can now search on desktop to add questions and answers to the new Google Q&A feature.
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Google brings local lead generation to Google Assistant and Google Home
The company taps HomeAdvisor and Porch to provide local contractors through a multistep voice-driven interaction.
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