Google: Web Search
Google Web Search is the primary feature of Google that allows you to search for content across the entire web, and returns results for relevant websites, images, videos, news, maps, products and more.
Google Search Resources for Users
Using Google Web Search is easy — just go to the Google home page and perform a search. Below are additional resources about using Google search:
Google Search Resources for Marketers
Moz: Google’s diversity update was pretty minor
According to Moz, Google has some more work to do to make the Google search results more...
Leaning into SEO as Google shifts from search engine to portal
How to prepare your company for Google's new customer journey for search....
Here’s the content Google aims to keep out of featured snippets
If you want to show in Google's featured snippets, be sure you're clear on the content policies for...
Google brings the Assistant to Waze
Part of Google's Assistant everywhere strategy, Waze users will be able to 'avoid tolls' and 'report police' without touching the screen....
Google search update aims to show more diverse results from different domain names
Another Google search update has rolled out this week, this one deals with domain diversity in the search...
Reports: Google, Amazon to face new antitrust inquiries in changed political climate
Reportedly the DOJ will investigate Google and the FTC will take on Amazon....
A favicon is worth a thousand keywords
SEOs predictably unhappy about shrinking distinction between paid and organic mobile search results — and, they’re not...
Google moves hotel pricing chart into the SERP
By improving the consumer travel-search experience Google is also going after a larger share of travel-ad spending....
Google’s indexing bug is back – new content not being indexed
It's back, Google isn't able to index new fresh content right...
Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines
The updates add guidelines on content expertise and interstitial pages, while lumping “E-A-T” in with “Page...
The mobile, desktop split may have stabilized at roughly 60% – 40%
Hitwise found an average of 58.5% of searches were mobile, largely unchanged from two years ago....
Google announces new ‘discovery’ ad formats, revamped Shopping experience, native placements at Google Marketing Live
The company also announced a new Google Shopping experience that aspires to be more competitive with Amazon....
Survey: More consumers trust accuracy of SMB websites over Google My Business
BrightLocal also found an overwhelming consumer preference for phone calls vs. other channels such as email and messaging....
Local SEOs mixed, some peeved at idea of paying for Google My Business services
They recognized the logic – but many had strong criticisms....
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to leave Alphabet board of directors
He will remain with the compain the very limited role of 'technical...
Google Q1 revenues $36.3 billion but miss Wall Street expectations
Mobile search and YouTube drove revenue gains, but growth of paid clicks has declined when compared with earlier quarters....
Google bug may select unrelated canonical URLs, could impact indexing
Breadcrumb trails on mobile may reflect unrelated...
Searching for facts, directions, local businesses are top digital assistant use cases, says survey
Smart speaker ownership jumped from 23 percent to 45 percent of respondents since last year's survey from Microsoft....
Google’s ‘Signed Exchange’ solution let’s publishers use their own URLs for AMP pages
Publishers will need to create a Signed Exchange but Cloudflare (and potentially others) promise to simplify the process....
Smart speakers set to eclipse tablets globally by 2021
Commerce, advertising or something else: The smart speaker model hasn't been figured out....