Google: Web Search

Google Search notice warns searchers when results are new and possibly unreliable

The warning indicates when Google knows when its search results may not show the best...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 25, 2021 at 6:44 am ET

Google webspam report: 60% increase in spam detection

The 2020 webspam report from Google said the company detected 40 billion pages of spam every day, that is up from 25 billion in...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 29, 2021 at 9:24 am ET

Google officially dropped Q&A on Google in search results

The Google Question Hub is not affected by this and will remain active according to...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 25, 2021 at 12:22 pm ET

Google Search launches about this result feature

Google launches a feature to help searchers learn more about the search result listing before they click on...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET

Google Search launches updated mobile design and interface

With a new, modern experience, Google says the redesign is easier to read and...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm ET

Google confirms showing homework practice problems in search results

Google said this is currently an experiment but will share more details on how publishers can participate...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 5, 2021 at 5:06 pm ET

Google launches Question Hub for US publishers

After a few years of testing Google Question Hub India, Indonesia and Nigeria - it is now available in the United...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 4, 2021 at 7:34 am ET

Google puts some contextual search features in context

Google is using newish language understanding models specific to leveraging conversational context for these search...

Barry Schwartz | Nov 24, 2020 at 11:43 am ET

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