Google is now testing showing article carousel sliders within the knowledge panel for some journalists or authors. It would show in the knowledge panel section for when you search for their name. It is currently a limited beta in the US English mobile search results for a limited number of journalist names but Google may
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Everyone knows the experience of using a horribly designed website. It may be hard to read, the pictures won’t load, navigating through different pages is a headache, it’s too hard to use. So you leave and find a better website — navigating a poorly performing site is not worth the effort. While it is frustrating,
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10 years ago, the folks at Search Engine Land (that includes me) released the first edition of the SEO Periodic Table. Since then, we’ve updated the table a few times as SEO has changed over the years. We did it again for the 10th anniversary of the table – and I honestly think this version
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Google has published its most recent Search Off The Record podcast, and it is filled with a lot of good nuggets like always, but I wanted to highlight one part of it where Gary Illyes from Google said that “there isn’t all that much trick in search.” Meaning, even for those that work inside Google,
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The other day we saw Google testing a magnifying glass in the bottom right footer of the mobile search results. Now I am seeing Google test an arrow up, that when clicked on, jumps the searcher to the top of the page to conduct another search as well. Brodie Clark spotted this arrow up button
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Here is an old photo I found on Instagram from the Google Dublin office back in 2018. It is of a ballet studio in the office, or maybe a workout area or general dance room. We’ve seen this room before but not with these guys practicing their ballet moves. Barry Deenihan (no relation) who
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Another Sign that Apple Search is On It’s Way Apple appears to be working towards developing a search engine. I have written a few posts about patents developed at Apple showing them getting into areas that Google is better known for. A newer Apple patent shows that Apple has developed a way of re-ranking search
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Google has released a really nice and clear video on what top stories changes are happening now with the release of the page experience update. As you know, top stories no longer require AMP and signed exchanges support will allow Google to prefetch those pages and load them instantly. We covered all of this numerous
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Google on mobile search has a new box for “browse more ideas” for some queries. This box shows is a fancy query refinement to get you to do more searches to refine your query to something more specific.
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Google is testing search refinement bubbles and selectors in the people also ask area of the search results. So the people also ask box comes up and then you can refine those options by clicking on the search refinement bubbles. Brodie Clark spotted this and posted a video of it in action on Twitter. Brodie
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