New study on featured snippets within Google reveals growth & optimization techniques
Study shows nearly 30% of the Google results have featured snippets.
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Google is testing variations of black links in search results
Google frequently makes changes to its search results pages in order to improve the user experience. Contributor Sergey Alakov has collected examples of what appears to be Google’s latest test: replacing blue links with black ones in the user interface…
Google tests ‘highlights’ icons in the local knowledge panels
Google is busy testing new features in the local listings. Here is one that shows fun icons.
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Are you a featured snippet? If so, Google’s testing dropping your web listing
Google has confirmed they are testing removing the featured snippet from the main core web results.
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Two major changes potentially coming to EU’s Right to Be Forgotten with global implications
Authorities in France considering automatic delisting for “sensitive personal data” and forcing global index removal.
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Google’s rocky road: Fake news, extremist videos & bad search results [Podcast]
In this week’s podcast, we discuss Google’s efforts to combat hyperpartisan and extremist content, fake news and misinformation on YouTube and in its search results.
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Google shortcuts use personalization and rich content to build next-gen local discovery tool
Machine learning-driven results entirely bypass the traditional search box.
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Is Google testing its own jobs search engine?
In the market for a new job? Google appears to be testing a new search feature just for you.
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Google launched more than 1,600 new changes in search last year
Google has been busy with 1,653 launches, 9,800 live traffic experiments, 18,015 side-by-side experiments and 130,336 search quality tests.
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Report: Google Assistant bests rivals for questions answered and overall accuracy
Cortana was second for questions answered, Alexa second-best for accuracy.
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Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked & installed
Got an app you’d like to promote? Columnist John Lincoln provides some basic tips for helping your app to appear in Google’s “app pack” search results.
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Google reaffirms 15% of searches are new, never been searched before
Google processes trillions of searches every year, and still, 15% of those queries have never been seen by Google before.
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Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content
Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets answers.
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Google Home can now support and distinguish up to six separate users
The new feature, which rolls out today, enables multiple users to receive personalized results.
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Google tests ‘suggested clip’ in search results where video jumps directly to the answer
Google wants to help you skip video introductions when searching for “how to” queries and jump you directly to the answer in the video.
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Google expands fact checking effort to all searches worldwide
Is some claim true or not? Google hopes special callouts for fact-checking articles will help searchers get the right answers or better make their own decisions.
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Siri is Google’s nearest mobile search competitor [Report]
According to a survey from Fivesight Research, Siri had a larger share of mobile search than Bing or Yahoo.
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Google hopeful the mobile-first index will launch by year’s end
But Gary Illyes says it might not go live until 2018.
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Google testing ‘tags’ label in search results snippets
A new Google experiment updates the search results snippets to show tags related to the page. But these tags don’t seem to do much of anything.
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A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis
Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top?
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