Tag Archives: Google Update

Google is testing a new design for the mobile search result snippets. Google is boxing in the snippet, the description text, of a specific listing in a gray-shaded curved box.This somewhat reminds me of the early featured snippet perspectives design but now this is for a normal search result snippet.Saad AK spotted this and postedContinueContinue reading “Google Tests Gray Boxed Snippets In Search Mobile”

Last night I reported on Search Engine Land, based on the Google earnings report and earnings call, that Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed the search company will release a chat based search feature based on its own AI, LaMDA, in the coming weeks and months. Plus, there is a big new search event thisContinueContinue reading “Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai Confirms New Chat Based Search Feature Coming Really Soon”

Google has updated its search help documentation around canonicalization this morning. The Google Search Relations team split in three distinct sections and updated a lot of the content to provide clearer details around how Google Search and canonicalization works.The three sections include:What is canonicalizationHow to specify a canonical with rel=”canonical” and other methodsFix canonicalization issuesAllContinueContinue reading “Google Does Major Refresh Of The Canonicalization Help Documentation”

I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update.I probably should have covered this yesterday, butContinueContinue reading “February 8th/9th Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update (Unconfirmed)”

Google’s Danny Sullivan reiterated that when it comes to AI content, Google is fine with it, as long as the content is useful and written for people. If you are using AI to write spam, then that is against Google’s guidelines. But Google also added a new section to the people-first content section on “who,ContinueContinue reading “Google On AI Content: Think About The Who, How, and Why For Your Content”