SearchCap: Bing augmented reality & Quora targeting
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the...
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.
SearchCap: Google mobile-first indexing notices, Bing AMP for news & Google Ads call reporting
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the...
Bing finally releases AMP viewer for news stories in mobile search
The Bing AMP viewer and Bing AMP Cache make AMP-enabled web pages accessible from Bing mobile search...
Google floods webmasters with ‘mobile-first indexing enabled’ notifications
Did you get a notice from Google that your site is now enabled for mobile-first indexing? You're not...
Google Maps now available for Apple CarPlay
The moment many Apple fans have been waiting for - Google Maps on CarPlay devices is now...
Bing shuts down public URL submission tool
This decision may help Bing reduce spam shown in the search results and focus on more trustworthy...
Bing improves visual search, adds educational carousel, American Sign Language and NFL answers
Microsoft's search engine adds a robust image search feature and educational results just in time for the school...
Google admits it’s using very limited personalization in search results
Outside of a searcher's location or immediate context from a prior search, Google doesn't personalize the search...
Google tests sub-images in search result snippets for sitelinks
SEOs and webmasters may want to look into how to optimize for images that Google may use for sitelinks in mobile search with this new...
Google My Business testing future opening dates in the local panel for new businesses
Google can let searchers know when a new business will be opening its...
You can break Google search by searching for ‘compare the market’
Google returns "Server Error" for a query for the past 6+...
Google looking for ways to handle sites blocking searchers over GDPR
Google admits it is a bad user experience for a European user to see content in web search, click on it and get a blocked page because of...
Hurricane Florence query shows Google delivering zero search results again in web search
After testing zero-search results back in March, Google may be testing showing no results...
After Google manual actions expire, algorithms may handle some of those site penalties
Google has confirmed again that manual actions, human-driven search penalties, can expire over...
Google gives thumbs-up on placing your local reviews from Yelp, Google Maps and others on your own website
The only exception here: Make sure not to mark up those copied reviews with review structured data and schema. That would be against Google's...
Google Dataset Search: A new search service to find data from sciences, government, some news organizations
Using dataset schema, you can mark up your data to get it included in the new Google Dataset Search...
Google Chrome now shows search result answers in the omnibox by default
Chrome 69, Google's latest browser version, also removes the green label for HTTPS...
Google Search Console out of beta, adds more features
Google has added a manual actions section to the new Google Search Console, and the URL inspection tool now works in real...
Google speeds up some searches by 2x with use of Service Worker and Chrome for Android
Google's pursuit of speed has led it to use Service Workers to make some repeated searches twice as...
Google My Business API v4.2 has been released
New features in the Google My Business API include verification options, new location end points, expanded search, chain membership and product...
