Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Improves Copyright Protection Anyone who has found that their content has been stolen (or scraped) online faces the decision of either letting it go (and using best practices that help […]
Sam Michelson noticed that when you search for [chanukah] in Google, the everything icon on the left changes to a driedel. The dreidel is a popular toy used by kids during Chanukah. Here is a picture: As you can see, Google is also placing a stripe down the right hand side of page, near the […]
Google Operating System notes that Google is once again flying rainbow colors to support gay pride celebrations happening this month throughout the world. Certain searches get topped by a rainbow-colored divider, symbolic of rainbow flags often flown by those in the gay community or in support of them. To see the colors, try searches for […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Every year, Google dresses up the dividers between the organic search results and the paid search results with special holiday icons. This year is no different. David notified me that the special holiday dividers are now up. Every year, they do change up the icons they use, to give it an updated feel. Below, I […]
Conduct a search in Google for gay, lesbian, homosexual, and other related searches and you might see Google supporting gay pride by adding a rainbow colored divider between the organic search results and paid search results. Philipp spotted this the other day and also added that Google is well known for supporting gay rights and […]
Like every year for the past three years, Google has dressed up the divider bar between the sponsored listings and the free listings with something special for specific holiday searches. For example, a search on christmas displays Christmas trees as the divider, as illustrated below:
Nathan Weinberg reports that searches on Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa bring up a special holiday divider between the organic results and the AdWords results on the right. Google did the same thing last year, but last years candy cane has been replaced by Christmas trees. Also make sure to track Google’s holiday logo doodles.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: