Google Search can show who wrote the review directly in the search results snippet. Google has this “reviewed by” rich result element next to some search results that names the author of the review. This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted some examples of this on X: This somewhat reminds me of the uploaded … Read more
Google is testing showing a carousel named mentioned products, that can be displayed under a search result snippet that shows the products mentioned in that search result. This came up for Reddit results, in the Discussions and forums section in Google Search. This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted a screenshot and videocast of … 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
Google is testing a product carousel within the search results snippets that contain product images, product information, ratings and prices. This might be specific to Amazon, but I am not sure. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted on Mastodon this example from a German-based Google search result: Frank wrote, “Not so cool to … Read more
Google is testing adding a background color, shade, to the featured snippets on mobile search. We saw this in February with normal snippets, also with site names and favicons and also with product results. Now Google is testing it for featured snippets. Brodie Clark spotted this and posted it on X and his SERP notes. … Read more
Microsoft recently added an animation or highlight effect on its featured answers or knowledge panels at the top of its Bing Search results. When you hover your mouse over the table of content on the left side, the section it corresponds to in the answer, will expand. Here is a GIF of this in action: … Read more
Google is testing adding a dynamic blue colored background highlight color when you hover your mouse cursor over a search result snippet. The whole background just behind that specific search result snippet will change from white, to a highlight blue color. This was spotted by Deepak Yadav who posted this screenshot on X: Gagan Ghotra … Read more
It is not news that Google now mixes in ads within organic results, but I have to say it still feels super icky to me that Google does this. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed that search ads can appear directly below organic featured snippets, as part of Google’s “ongoing evolution of dynamic ad … Read more
Google is testing a larger font size for the main search result title link, followed by smaller fonts for that same snippet’s sitelinks. This was spotted a few days ago by both Umair Khan on X and Lily Ray on X. Google often tests font sizes for its search results, they have done this for … Read more
Google is testing a special treatment for Reddit snippets within the Google search results. Google is adding upvote and comment counts in various styles, in an effort to provide more information to the searcher about the Reddit thread. What it looks like. I was sent screenshots from both Shubham Khatwani and Brodie Clark of this … Read more
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