Google announced a new feature to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of your search history. So if you do something in search that you rather not let others see if they stumble on your search history, you can quickly delete that last 15 minutes of search history. Google said “You can also try out

Google My Business offers support options on their web site and now it may even show you the hours of operation for those support channels. Here is a screen shot from Usama Ali on Twitter showing this support feature. On the Google My Business support page, after you are able to reach out and contact

It looks like Google is now testing shows image extensions in the Google Hotel Ads. Lluc B. Penycate, who follows the hotel space carefully in Google, noticed this and said this is the “first time seeing images in Google Ads for hotel branded searches.” He posted numerous screenshots on Twitter, none of which I can

Danny Sullivan of Google published a blog post on Friday named answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News. Sadly, I honestly don’t think this will lead to less questions or frustration from new publishers and their questions around sites appearing in Google News or not. The blog post covers these five areas:

In part one of my interview with Richard Nazarewicz with spoke more about his career and approach to SEO for a global news organization. In part two we got into a huge array of SEO topics. Here is the break down: 0:25 – Typical Day of an SEO at the Wall Street Journal: Richard Naz

Here is a super colorful art montage or mural of some sorts at the GooglePlex. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this one, it might be new. It was shared on Instagram by Peter The Greeter last week. He wrote “Peter The Greeter Always feels at home when he’s at work!!! #google #greeter #android #youtube

Here is a photo from 2016 of the co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, learning robotic surgery. Santiago Horgan posted this photo, he is an MD who is an expert in esophageal disease, weight-loss surgery, minimally invasive surgery and new technologies and approaches for surgery. Anyway, he posted this on Instagram a while back and wrote

Have you ever seen Google show a set of local pack results in the web search results but without displaying a map with it? Likely not. Well, Justin Moseback noticed it and shared some screenshots of this on Twitter. Here is one of those screenshots: I tried to replicate this but I was unable to.

Google is testing, I think again, showing a Google phone number, instead of the actual business’s real phone number, in the business local listing in Google Search. In this example, Google is showing both numbers actually but lists the Google number first. Google is telling searches that “Google Numbers help businesses provide better customer service

Google’s John Mueller again said that dropping links in forums for SEO purposes won’t help you rank better in Google. In response the Reddit thread question “Is Forum Posting Still Work As Link Building Method in SEO?” John Mueller said “No.” The person who wrote the question added “I want to create good backlinks for