Google adds deep breathing exercises to search results
Google wants their searchers to take a breather with this new relaxing search result.
Barry Schwartz on July 31, 2018 at 12:22 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Google has quietly added a deep breathing exercise and meditation technique to the search results. All you need to do is search for [deep breathing], [breathing exercise] and similar terms in Google search on desktop or mobile. This works in other languages as well, such as [respiracion profunda], a reader from Link to Media in Spain told us.
Here is a GIF I made of it in action:
Google has explored many of these types of functional search result answers before including roll a dice, tic-tac-toe and other games, animal sounds and others over the years.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.