Google Poland has a lobby area with these robots. I am not sure if they are official Googlebot who spend their time crawling the web or if they are just for greeting visitors at the Poland office. This is an old photo from September 2019 from Instagram that I have in my archives. This post

Back in 2017 we saw Google testing autoplaying video previews in the knowledge panel. Now it seems Google is autoplaying video thumbnails on overlay in the video carousel box in the search results. Here is

In December Google began adding streamed 3D content with AR features for cars. Now, according to Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google, said “today, AR just got a lot more real in Search.” He added Google now has “photorealistic 3D models” of some cars. Rajan shared these screen shots on Twitter and said

Late last week, Google has updated the workflow to flag reviews within Google My Business. The new flow gives you a bit more detail and probably makes it easier for Google to route the reviews in the right priority to the right team for review. Now when you login to Google My Business and access

Yesterday, Google has took the cover off its alternative to cookies named FLoC or Federated Learning of Cohorts. FLoC basically clusters “large groups of people with similar interests”,” this is data gathered in the browser, not stored anywhere, and it looks at the group and analyzes that data, creating a hidden individual “in the crowd,”

There may be some possible bugs or issues with Google Search Console reporting around some canonical URLs being reported in some URL Inspection reports and for the AMP enhancement report. Canonical URL issue The canonical URL can be found under the coverage report, show excluded URLs and then click on “alternate page with proper canonical

The same day Google began rolling out its new mobile search design, Google also began testing a new font for its search results. Gemma Fontané notified me of this last Friday and provided side by side comparison screen shots on Twitter. Here is that side by side screen shot, you can click on it to

Okay, so this is not a real Google office but I am going through the archives to find interesting photos of Google and with COVID and no one being in the office, it is hard to find. Here is an old photo of a makeshift non-Google office in some part of the world. I spotted

John Mueller of Google was asked by Michael Lewittes if those news websites you see overlay those call to actions asking you to sign up for their newsletter before seeing the content see harm in their Google rankings because of those actions. And yes, John Mueller said they would see the wrath of the mobile