Google: Web Search
Get the best search news, tips and resources, delivered each day.
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
Study: Responding to reviews can improve paid-search conversion rates
Better reviews would have meant 13,000 more local leads for businesses in the study. ...
Hijacking Google search results for fun, not profit: UK SEO uncovers XML sitemap exploit in Google Search Console
SEO wins bug bounty from Vulnerability Reward Program, Google search team confirms the exploit no longer...
Proposed EU consumer rules to force ‘marketplaces’ to reveal ‘default ranking criteria’
Penalties will be stronger, and there will be an individual right of action....
Google stops showing zero search results for time, calculations & conversions
After only a week of experimenting with showing only a single answer, Google is putting that test on hold....
Report: EU to ask Google, others to publicly reveal ranking factors
Proposed rules are designed to redress the “superior bargaining power” of the large internet brands....
Google working to integrate AMP benefits into future open web standards
Standardization will allow sites to implement, and benefit from, AMP features without adopting the...
Google Lens comes to Android devices through the side door — Google Photos
This indirect rollout of visual search is intriguing but awkward....
Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation
Google no longer needs Zagat as it once did....
Multifaceted featured snippets begin rolling out in Google search results
Google updates the search results features with an expanded featured snippet targeting broad, nuanced...
German court: Google has no ‘duty to inspect’ websites for illegal content before displaying
The court held that Google can't be held liable before being notified of a 'clearly recognizable violation' of individual rights....
Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google
New report from Google digs into three years' worth of data on removal requests and exposes the delisting criteria....
Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over...
Google Assistant to get multiple new languages, distribution and skills
The Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and be able to offer mobile carrier customer support....
Google launches new look for ‘people also search for’ search refinements
Go to a search result, click on a listing, and then click back to the search results page on Google to trigger this on Google desktop...
AMP Stories: The new Accelerated Mobile Pages format from Google
Does this doubling down on the mobile framework by adding the new, heavily visual and interactive format signal a more aggressive push toward...
Google gets in on mobile ‘story craze’ with new AMP Stories format
New, visually rich mobile content format is designed to generate more engagement from users....
GoDaddy site builder now integrated with Google My Business
Much of the content creation and verification process is...
Survey: People becoming less inhibited about using voice search in public
Texting is the most common use case for voice, and men use voice search more than women, according to new data from Stone Temple Consulting....
Study: 80% of Google Home results come from snippets
But they aren't always the source of answers for Google Home....
YouTube sets stricter rules on videos that can carry ads
Advertiser brand safety concerns are driving more changes at...
