Google is testing using a larger but thinner font for the search results snippets. I am not sure which one I like better, one looks like a normal font, and the thinner one looks a bit fancier. But I am horrible at these small user interface changes. This was spotted by Will O’Hara who posted … Read more
Google is now testing a “Frequently saved” label on the search results snippets. Previously we’ve seen you visit often labels, for you labels, preferred source labels and other labels in the search results. This was spotted by Nate Louis who posted this screenshot on X: Sachin Patel also spotted this and posted about it on … Read more
Google is testing adding a new rich result type to the search results snippet named “Shop nearby.” The shop nearby link will open the Google Business Profile of the business’s website. We have seen similar snippets before with city names in the snippets and also shop nearby features but this is a variation of that, … Read more
Late last *****, the Department of Justice indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy to its monopoly ruling. Of course, Google will appeal this decision, which will have this stuck in courts for years. A breakup is probably the most strict outcomes of this ruling that anyone expected. … Read more
This morning we covered these unusual “preferred source” labels in the search results. And now we are seeing “For you” labels in the search results. Maybe they are the same and just using different names or maybe they are different. I spotted these “for you” labels from Vijay Chauhan on X and Darren Huang on … Read more
Bing now lets you scroll within a specific search result snippet. So if you are looking at a specific search result, that specific snippet, you can scroll through, until you get to the next snippet. This is a bit hard to explain, so he is a GIF I made of this in action: I spotted … Read more
Google has updated its title links search developer documentation to add that Google Search may use your og:title meta tag title for your title link in the Google Search results. The OG title is normally used by social sharing sites for the title of your posts, but Google may also use it for the title … Read more
After testing the blue verification icons and labels for ads in the Google Search results, now Google seems to be testing them on the free organic search results. Oh, and Google also tested them in gold, and Microsoft tested Bing verification labels in organic free listings too. When you hover over the verification icon, it … Read more
For the past several months, many sites have been complaining over and over again that their image thumbnails for their websites were not showing up in the Google Search result snippets. Well, with the release of the August 2024 core update, many small publishers are starting to see their images show up in the search … Read more
Google may be testing showing which country the site operates in with a country label attached to the search result snippet. In the example below, Google is showing a “South African” label with the country flag and the country written out at the top of the snippet next to the site name. This was originally … Read more
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