Google has a lot of napping areas and also a lot of ball pits but I’ve never seen a photo of a Googler napping in a ball pit. That is until now, when I saw this photo posted on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we […]

I am not sure what this is, but clearly this Googler is celebrating some sort of event because she is popping some champagne standing on the Google Dublin office bridge. Congrats 🍾 ! I found this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun

Google Search Console Insights is posting a notice that says there may be data changes in its reports when the Google Analytics 4 migration starts on July 1, 2023. The notice reads, “Starting June 1, 2023, you might notice some data changes. This is because we’ll start using data from your Google Analytics 4 property.”

Since last week, Google has been rolling out a new search settings design interface. It looks more like the material design interface, with rounded and shaded borders. This is compared to the more bland textual look for search settings. I had a few people share it with me last week (I can’t seem to find

Google is testing circling-in, drawing a circle around, the favicons displayed in the mobile search results. I am not sure I like this but hey, Google is always testing. Brodie Clark spotted this and posted this on Twitter. He said, “Google is testing a new display for favicons on mobile with a blue gradient circle

Earlier this month, I covered a “big” press event Microsoft held announcing some new features and removing the waitlist for Bing Chat. Yesterday afternoon, Bing announced that these features are now rolling out, some are live, and some will be live within a week or two. I covered it already a couple of weeks ago

A couple of months ago we reported that Microsoft may share revenues with publishers that help it create content for Bing Chat. It was under he Microsoft Start Partner program. Well, for the first time, I am seeing a Microsoft Start partner label in the Bing Chat results. This was posted on Twitter and Mikhail

Google has added a new user agent to the list of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is named Google-InspectionTool and goes under both the Googlebot user agent and also the name Google-InspectionTool. Google added this to the Google crawler help document over here. It says, “Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such