Google: Web Search

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

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