Google announced a few new features in Google Search around travel features specifically as “many people are eager to start planning vacations again,” Google said. Google is getting ready for a post pandemic world with these updates that include new travel COVID advisories, new ways to explore destinations and a road trip planner. Google has

Here is an old photo I found on Instagram of the Google logo, its letters used for signage, on the ground, fallen and looking helpless. Okay, well, maybe they were installing a new sign at the GooglePlex back in January 2018? In any event, the person who posted this wrote “Go home Google, you’re drunk.”

Google has added a bunch of new supporting details to the robots.txt specification document. Jamie Indigo noticed these changes and explained what was added include “explicit details on the files for IDNs, IP-addresses, and port numbered hostnames.” It seems these were added on April 7th according to the document. Jamie posted the details on Twitter

Google has made design updates to the Google News Publisher Center. I don’t know if new functionality was added, it does not appear so, but maybe I am missing something. I’ll be honest, I do not use the publisher center that often, so I’m really not sure. Google last updated the Publisher Center back in

There is an interesting tidbit you can learn about Google’s web rendering service (WRS) in the latest JavaScript SEO hangout with Martin Splitt of Google where Martin said he is “spilling the beans a little bit” by sharing that there is a layer on top of WRS that handles “prioritization, error retry, quality of service

Both Microsoft (Bing) and Alphabet (Google) announced earnings last night and both had pretty big uplifts with their search advertising revenues and earnings. Microsoft was up 17% for its search advertising revenue category and Google was up 32% for its search advertising revenue category, year-over-year. The Microsoft earnings release said “search advertising revenue excluding traffic

Google has a few link attributes that allow you to tell Google not to pass any link signals from the link to the site you are linking to. There is the classic rel=”nofollow” and the newer rel=”ugc” and rel=”sponsored”. But no, there is no do follow or rel=”follow” attribute. Yes, sometimes SEOs will call a

I keep finding new photos of the Android statues at the Google offices in Mountain View, California. It seems like they are all masked. We had a red masked and blue masked and now here is a yellow masked Android statue. I found this one on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search