Seth Goldstein the other day shared a photo he took with me, where he said he was playing with clay (I think with his kids) and when he was done making a person he thought, that was a clay version of yours truly. Seth added “Haha. It just came to me. I looked down as

Today on Google’s home page is a special raven Doodle, special Google log, for Elizabeth Peratrovich. Elizabeth Peratrovich American civil rights activist and member of the Tlingit nation who worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. She was born on July 4, 1911 Petersburg, District of Alaska and died at the age of 47

A couple of weeks ago Google announced it is launching a new ad setting, first on YouTube and then on Google Ads to let users see fewer alcohol ads and gambling ads. You can access this setting now in your Google Ads settings panel. Here is what it looks like: “Ad categories on YouTube” settings

Google seems to be testing displaying “practice problems” in the search results so that you can study directly in the search results.

Google is testing displaying question mark icons in the people also ask results. I think someone else shared this with me recently but I thought it was a bug, but now that a second person notified me of this, maybe it is not a bug but a real Google test. Here is a screen shot

New Years Eve is just around the corner and Google’s special Doodle for New Year’s Eve 2020 is available for viewing. It is the holiday Doodle with an old fashioned bird-house clock with 2020 on it. There is also a little easter egg surprise in the search results that shoots confetti all of the search

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that passage indexing/rankings and the page experience update are “very different things.” This came about when Michel Fortin asked if the two might launch together. So no, they will not launch together and they are really different. I do expect the passage indexing ranking feature to go live in

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his conversation with Frase’s Director of Marketing Bill King about how to scale SEO in a startup environment. Together they discuss how to best manage the uncertainty of SEO work in startup spaces. One of the best ways to scale SEO efforts at a

In the last Google Search Console training video series of the year, Daniel Waisberg of Google brought in a special guest, the Engineering lead for Search Console – Hillel Maoz. In this video they discuss a bit of what happens behind the scenes. Here is the video: The two of them explain how the team

Mordy Oberstein spotted a feature, that may or may not be new, where Google is showing a “types” filter in the knowledge panel that ultimately loads featured snippets below it. I can replicate it but here is a video cast of it in action from Mordy on Twitter: Has anyone ever seen this before? It’s