Google: Web Search

Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately

Google now "consider passages from pages as an additional ranking...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 20, 2020 at 2:09 pm ET

Google: BERT now used on almost every English query

Google announced numerous improvements made to search over the year and some new features coming...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 15, 2020 at 3:17 pm ET

Google confirms indexing issues with both canonicalization and mobile-indexing

Google said it is fixing the issue and there is no action you need to...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 1, 2020 at 7:29 pm ET

GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2

While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 17, 2020 at 8:51 am ET

More Google Search bugs: Top stories indexing snag, coverage report delays

Google had yet another indexing issue and the search coverage report in Search Console is very...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 14, 2020 at 9:28 am ET

Google now uses BERT to match stories with fact checks

Google has made numerous changes to auto-complete, News, fact-checking, knowledge panels, breaking news detection and...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 10, 2020 at 3:00 pm ET

Google Search helps users find live sport games, linear TV shows

Google improves its live TV and sports search...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 13, 2020 at 12:57 pm ET

Google Search bug caused by issue with its ‘indexing systems’

Google said it was an issue with indexing that caused Monday's really weird search results....

Barry Schwartz | Aug 11, 2020 at 11:52 am ET

A Google Search bug wreaked havoc on the search results Monday night

The issue lasted several hours yesterday, putting the SEO community in a bit of panic...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 11, 2020 at 9:02 am ET

Google adds new mortgage feature box to search

If you are in the mortgage business, you have one more Google feature to compete...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 22, 2020 at 11:02 am ET

Google delays mobile-first indexing deadline to March 2021

Due to the pandemic, Google pushed the deadline from September...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 22, 2020 at 8:05 am ET

Google site command bug being fixed

Google has confirmed the issue was resolved at 3:25pm...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 21, 2020 at 12:58 pm ET

Twitter is now back in Google

After Twitter was hacked, Google removed the Twitter carousel from search - it is now...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 20, 2020 at 9:09 pm ET

Google Search drops tweet carousels after Twitter hack

Twitter had a serious and concerning security event Wednesday. Google has since removed tweets from its search...

Barry Schwartz | Jul 16, 2020 at 8:41 am ET

Google to allow removal of counterfeit goods from search results

You can now submit a form to request Google to review and take down counterfeit goods from Google...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 11, 2020 at 3:00 am ET

Google launches featured snippet to web page content highlight feature

After years of testing, Google now launched the featured snippet to web page highlight...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 3, 2020 at 10:57 am ET

Google confirmed indexing issues causing some stale results

Google is aware of the issue and is actively working on a...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 2, 2020 at 3:46 pm ET

The Google Page Experience Update: User experience to become a Google ranking factor

Core Web Vitals metrics will start to impact rankings in 2021. Here is what you need to...

Barry Schwartz | May 28, 2020 at 12:00 pm ET

Google May 2020 core update is done rolling out

It is now time for you to review your site to see if this May 2020 update had an impact on its Google...

Barry Schwartz | May 18, 2020 at 12:47 pm ET

Oops, LinkedIn temporarily drops out of Google Search

Even the biggest sites on the internet can have problems with their SEO and...

Barry Schwartz | May 6, 2020 at 2:39 pm ET