Google is testing displaying a business profile listing in an overlay interface within the web search results instead of taking you into the Google Maps interface. So when you click on a business listing in the local pack, instead of taking it into Google Maps to view more details on that business, Google is testing […]
Google Search is testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label for products and images that you can rotate within the search results. I guess either 3D or 360 labels would work for this, and I guess Google is testing the alternative. Here is a GIF of this, which was captured by Saad AK […]
Google is testing a few interfaces for the Google Posts and updates in the local interfaces. One is to overlay the Google updates in the images for the business listing and the other is to show a “more posts” button in the Google Posts overlay in Google Search. Khushal Bherwani noticed the Google updates/posts text […]
Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site’s favicon on the right side of the search result title’s snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover overbut here it is being tested on the right. Shameem Adhikarath […]
Microsoft Bing is testing not showing the citations or links to publishers by default for some results in the Edge Sidebar. So instead of showing the links to the publishers, Bing is showing “click to view,” and when you click it, then Bing will show you those citations or links. This was spotted and covered […]
Twitter’s looking to give users a broader set of emoji reactions for their DMswhile also, potentially, enabling personalization of your quick reactions display in the app. As you can see in these mock-ups, shared by Twitter designer Andrea ConwayTwitter’s testing a new search option within the reaction pop-up in DMs which would enable you to […]
Okay, everyone hates the new tweet view counts – or not so much hates them, as a concept, but hates the way that they’re displayed, which currently produces these types of double line stat summaries. People also don’t like that views are displayed first, at the left of the tweet data display, and Elon himself […]
KEY POINTS Australians have been told to expect COVID-19 waves for at least two years Free PCR tests will require a doctor’s referral. Vaccines will remain free. Australians will soon need a doctor’s referral to receive a free COVID-19 PCR test, despite being warned to expect new waves “on a regular basis” for at least […]
Gary Illyes from Google loves posting his PSAs on Mastodon. His next PSA is that if you are using a CDN or cloud hosting service, then make sure to test up a routine test to ensure that the service is not blocking Googlebot or other search engine crawlers that you want to crawl and index […]
Will the BeReal process of posting an image of whatever you might be doing at a specific moment of the day end up becoming a lasting social media trend, or will it fade out, like many viral shifts before it? It feels, in some ways, like it’s already waning – though BeReal did win App […]