Alan Kent, a colleague of Google’s John Mueller, created this explanatory graphic on the topic of a typical day in John Mueller’s life. It depicts John Mueller being asked about how search works and him trying to explain it so that we can understand. The graphic reads John Mueller saying “This problem got too hard

Does Google think less of your website if you link your site to a “lesser” website? I guess the question is similar to if you hang out with a lower class crowd, do your more upper class friends think less of you? With Google, the answer is no. John Mueller of Google posted on Twitter

Google is showing in the local pack for some of the business listings that show their local inventory, if that inventory information was updated today. A label next to the product item would say “updated today.” This was first spotted by Saad AK about a month ago on mobile and then the other day spotted

Google is now showing a carousel to help shoppers find lower cost, cheaper and more affordable (I just said the same thing three times) products. Google displays this in an “affordable picks” carousel that matches more on your keyword phrase with “cheap” added on.

Jason Barnard, a man who follows knowledge panels probably closer than anyone else, noticed some examples of Google showing knowledge panels that are empty. To be clear, I cannot replicate any of these examples, but Jason shared some screenshots of this on Twitter. Jason Barnard said he found “another empty knowledge panel.” Here is the

Google’s John Mueller said this week that the search company is still not done moving sites to its mobile-first indexing. This was suppose to be completed March of this year, after moving the deadline from September of last year. In March we reported that Google was going to migrate over the last batch of sites

Here is a photo of a Googler and her dog, a Doogler, on their way to the Google Germany office for the first time together. I think this is the first time this Doogler has been to the office, even before COVID. You can see more details in the embed below from Instagram. This post

Google is holding its inaugural Google News Initiative for the North American Community News Summit on August 17th and 18th. Danny Sullivan, the public liaison for Search at Google, will answer selected questions during the Summit and you can submit your questions over here. Megan H. Chan from Google said on Twitter this summit is

Google recently started to support author.url and other author properties that let you communicate to Google which author wrote an article on your site. I asked John Mueller of Google if he is worried if people will fake author details and spam it, to try to possibly boost any rankings they may get from this.