Here is an old photo found on Instagram from 2017 at the Google Dublin office of a yellow pool table and woman in pink boxing gloves. I don’t think boxing and pool go together but I can be wrong. More can be found on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of

Google has updated the index coverage report in Google Search Console with more “more fine-grained” status and categories. The change will cause some of the errors or statuses to “relabeled with the new, more specific categories,” Google said.

Google’s John Mueller responded to a concern in the Reddit forums that when it comes to the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the only real way to use a 404 page not found, is not to use a 404 but a 410 status code. John Mueller of Google said “404 is fine. 410 is fine,” trying to

Google seems to be categorizing and labeling news articles in mobile search by intent, such as interviews or other intents. Valentin Pletzer shows a screen shot of this in action. I am not sure if this is new but it is interesting to see Google automatically assigning these labels to articles. Here is the screen

Since last March 2020, Google has been giving us a heads up about the Google Ads team doing some sort of verification for your Google Ads account. We learned a bit more in April but now I am seeing advertises getting emails from Google that says “start identity verification by February 6, 2021.” Amalia Fowler

Here is episode 102 with industry vet Phillip Thune. Phillip Thune’s Deep History In Search: Phillip Thune is the current CEO of Textbroker and has been for over 10 years, but he goes back further in the search space including working for FindWhat in early 2000s. FindWhat, also known as Miva, was a competitor of

Danny Sullivan of Google confirmed on Twitter that the search company launched the subtopics ranking feature or algorithm in mid-November 2020, just weeks after announcing it at the Search On event in October 2020. Subtopics according to the announcement is a (machine learning) way for Google to “understand subtopics around an interest, which helps deliver

Here is a photo from Brett Axler, a Technical Integration Lead, Project Manager at Google, who said he is back at work. I get that he should be wearing a mask at the office but a hard hat? It does look like he now works in a construction zone, so I guess it all makes

Google Ads now allows you to exclude data from your smart bidding to prevent conversion tracking issues. Google said “to make it easy for you to prevent these technical issues from impacting Smart Bidding, we’re introducing data exclusions for Search, Shopping and Display campaigns.” This helps ensure that with Smart Bidding in Google Ads you