Google adds new ‘family-led’ attribute to Google My Business profile
Joining the women-led and veteran-led icons is a new family-led icon for your Google local...
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’s 20th birthday, Image Search update & event markup reports
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the...
New Google Image Search desktop design is now rolling out
In addition, Google has added Creator and Credit metadata support to image...
Google adds event markup to rich results status report in Google Search Console
Google has begun sending notices to those with bad event markup on their site that they need to make...
SearchCap: Google AMP stories, SEO complexities and algorithm updates
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the...
Google now builds its own AMP stories for search
So far, these stories only seem to work consistently in the Google search app, and not in mobile Chrome or Safari mobile...
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...
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...
