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
Google updates Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines
The updates add guidelines on content expertise and interstitial pages, while lumping “E-A-T” in with “Page...
Mobile, desktop search traffic split may have stabilized at roughly 60% – 40%
Hitwise found an average of 61.3% of searches across key categories were initiated on mobile devices....
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....
Majority of SMBs doing SEO are in-housing
Nearly 80 percent expressed confidence about knowledge of best practices....
Paid social, even print tops SEM as marketing priorities for SMBs, survey finds
Paid-search ranked near the bottom of the list for 2019....
Survey finds Google Home users do more, have ‘far higher’ satisfaction than Alexa owners
Alexa devices dominate, but higher Google Home NPS scores suggest it will have better word of mouth and could gain market share....
DuckDuckGo a new ‘default search’ option for Chrome, is it time to start paying attention?
The upstart search engine's visibility has been growing....
What will Google Hotels mean for online booking sites?
The new site mirrors the UI of Google Flights and could have a similar affect on the hotel booking...
Voice gaining on mobile browser as top choice for smartphone-based search
Since 2018, voice has become more users' first choice for mobile...
Nearly half of users have a bad reaction to ‘not secure’ browser warning, survey finds
With few exceptions, brands suffered diminished credibility in UK study....
Google Actions vs. Alexa Skills is the next big App Store battle
There are thousands of Skills and Actions but very few people are using them....
Google enables ‘join waitlist’ for restaurants
Functionality is provided by DineTime as part of Reserve with...