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 […]
The other day, I reported on Search Engine Land that Google seems to be showing fewer sitelinks in the search snippets. Not that Google is showing sitelinks less often in general, but rather that I cannot find any sitelinks that are made up of 6 links and I am more often finding 2 or 4 […]
Google is now showing justifications directly in the Google Maps mobile interface and app for businesses that you might be interested in. Justifications are basically reviews or comments about the business that Google might think you want to see overlayed. Google has shown justifications in the map local pack in multiple ways many time before […]
Here is a weird Google search interface test that is the more visual design but seems possibly broken. Google is showing a set of images in a snippet that has no URLs listed, is unrelated to the snippet above it or below it. It just shows images related to the queries. I am not sure […]
We covered Google polling searchers before asking if they are happy with the search results. But now Google is showing some pretty massive polls asking “how satisfied are you with this result?” under specific search results. Here is a screenshot from Punit on Twitter: Like I said, we’ve seen this on mobile, much smallerbefore: Do […]
Google Maps, the map interface, is testing displaying review snippets, short selected reviews, directly under the name of the business or organization in the map interface under the pin. This was spotted by Allie Margeson who said on Twitter “seeing review snippets get some prominence directly on the map and I like it!” Here is […]
Pretty much all of the tools that automatically track volatility and changes in Google search results are still showing great volatility. It’s unusual because that November core update should be long done and the Product reviews updated in December shouldn’t be that volatile – or at least not at this point. All of the tools […]
The concept of Influencing marketing has changed over the years. During the TV era, one of the most common methods was to use a well-known celebrity as social proof of a product or brand. This worked well “then” because there was no accountability and very little way to measure this celebrity’s impact on society. There […]