Here is a photo from January 2020, shortly before the COVID lockdowns, of the arcade room at Google Chicago offices. I think they have multiple rooms like this but here is one with the wood paneling. This was shared on Instagram where the individual said “One of the multiple game rooms we’ve got at Google

On the 151th anniversary of the MET, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, Google posted a GIF as a Doodle on its home page to celebrate the day. The MET was established on April 13, 1870 but the The Fifth Avenue building opened two years later on February

The upcoming Google Page Experience Update which is suppose to launch next month is not going to be real time, like some of Google’s other algorithm updates. This is kind of obvious, since we know there is a 28-day delay in gathering the core web vital data. John Mueller of Google was asked this on

If your website contains both YMYL, your money / your life, and non-YMYL topics of content, you may want to consider separating those out into their own standalone websites. Google’s John Mueller implied that sometimes Google can do that automatically but it is safer to do it on your end so that you don’t have

There are numerous reports of reviews not publishing and going live in the Google local results. So if someone leaves a business a review in Google Maps and Google Local, those reviews are either very much so delayed or just not publishing. Maybe there is some sort of technical bottleneck with the reviews pipeline? Joy

Google’s John Mueller reminded us that when it comes to your CSS background images, Google won’t be indexing or ranking those images in image search. John Mueller said on Twitter “last I checked, we don’t use CSS background images for image search.” John said this also back in January 2018 when he said Google Image

Frederic Dubut from Microsoft said Bing “may still crawl parameterized URLs occasionally.” He said that the “most common parameters are taken into account in indexing” but it still may crawl the other parameterized URLs here and there. Frederic said this Twitter where he was asked why is Bing indexing URL tracking parameters for some sites.

Google has made changes to how it calculates the CLS, cumulative layout shift, metric within core web vitals. Specifically maximum session window with 1 second gap, capped at 5 seconds. This was done to make it “more fair for long running pages and single page apps,” Malte Ubl from Google said. Google said it decided