Google has updated the suicide prevention box in its search results with a new hotline number and a chat support option. “While Google has included suicide prevention information at the top of relevant search results for many years, this new hotline will make it easier for people in emotional distress and seeking mental health support […]
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Google had plenty of bugs, some really big ones, this week including not indexing new content for a day in Google Search. Note, there were rumblings of a Google algorithm update shortly after the indexing bug, but it might be related. Google Ads, Analytics, AdSense, and so on all had not just one outage, but […]
The Google countdown timer and stopwatch feature seem to have stopped working. It seemed the Google stopwatch stopped ticking on July 18th. This feature first came up in Google about a decade ago. like this Aug 2013 I first noticed this feature and it temporarily stopped working in October 2013. Here is what it use […]
Google Search’s local pack has for a long time let you filter the local results by hours of operations. But I am not sure when Google added by the day of the week. I’m not sure if this is new but I don’t think I’ve seen it before. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this and posted about […]
Google has this weird Google Search rendering bug where it is showing only one search result to some users. This seems like a super limited bug, impacting a limited number of users. But for Google, even one percent of searchers are a lot of searches. Google said they will investigate these reports. There are complaints […]
Google announced it will begin testing new AR, augmented reality, experiences in the public with a limited number of Googlers and trusted testers. These include in-lens displays, microphones, and cameras, that Google will start to test next month in the real world. Google explained these can be “used to enable experiences like translating the menu […]
TikTok ends 2021 with 655.9 million total usersand, according to the parent company Bytedance, they now have 1 billion monthly active users. But that’s not the platform’s only achievement. According to Google, nearly 40% of Gen Z prefer to search on TikTok and Instagram over Google Search and Maps. Currently, it is already possible to […]
The other day we covered a Google knowledge box card layout, but now Google is testing a more interactive version of this card layout. When you click on the cards they expand and show more details. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted it on Twittersaid “Interesting one box result being tested. Searching for the height […]
Google may investigate a potential bug in Google Search with the recipe search results carousel. There are reports of sites dropping out from the recipe carousel without the URLs dropping out from the normal search results. Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter that he would pass along the complaints. I’ll pass it on — […]
As many of you know, there was a pretty massive one indexing issue impacting new content in Google Search most of Friday, July 15th, but that was pretty much isolated to that Friday. Now, I am seeing signals of a Google search ranking algorithm update on Saturday, July 16th. Are the two related? It is […]