The time has come – Google has finally released another broad core update – this one is named the June 2021 Core Update. This update started rolling out yesterday, June 2, 2021 and it came just about six months after the last core update, which was the December 2020 core update. The rollout started at

Here is a Googler doing some weight lifting training at the Google Irvine, California office. This was pre-COVID but I am digging through the archives to find images from the Google offices to share here for this search pic of the day. Here is the video from Instagram: This post is part of our daily

Google seems to have launched in Italy a new Google Assistant app for the Google My Business platform. This app lets you ask Google Assistant to bring your business online. All you do is say “Hey Google, bring my business online.” Luca Bove pointed this out to me on Twitter via the Google Italy Blog.

It has been half a year since I saw Google test the Google page experience and core web vitals label or icon in the search results. Google’s latest messaging is that Google will continue to test it but made no promises that this label will launch. Well, John Mueller of Google said the other day

Google’s John Mueller was asked by an SEO named Promothash Boruah when is it safe to delete tag and/or category pages on your web site. John responded that you can remove those pages with no real impact on your organic search traffic if those pages have “almost no traffic or no visibility of those pages.”

Google published its Google News transparency policy listing its principles behind these policies. Google said these policies help determine what is eligible to appear on Google News and other News surfaces, and they help ensure that Google is elevating content from trusted, authoritative sources. Keep in mind, Google never announced the Google News and Discover

In April, Google updated how the Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) metric within the core web vitals was calculated. In short, Google made the metric more beneficial to most sites, so your CLS scores may go up by themselves on June 1st in the Google Search Console reports. On June 1st, Google posted “The CLS metrics

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering at Google where he leads teams working on Lens, AR, and Consumer Shopping, told me that Google Image Search and Google Lens are coming “closer together soon.” This was after I failed at using a reverse image search feature on Google Images. The other day, when I was trying to

Here is a recent photo from outside the Google Dublin, Ireland office of a brown Nissan Figaro. It looks cool and shiny and I like brown but I had no idea what car this was so I asked on Twitter, that was after trying the reverse image search feature on Google Images, which failed me.