Yes, it appears a lot of Google services are currently down right now. You are not alone. This is Gmail, YouTube, Google My Business, Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Google Photos, Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Search Console, Admob, etc but not Google Search. I think logging into Google is broken also. Any early birds suddenly having

Here is a new emoji Google posted on its Instagram page, it is a Christmas tree wearing a mask. Google wrote “when nothing feels ordinary, we need extraordinary emoji. And with the updated Emoji Kitchen, you can create over 14,000 combinations to express your most nuanced feelings—tap the link in bio to get started.” It

Here is a weird one spotted by Vlad Rappoport and posted on Twitter. He showed how when you place your mouse cursor over a snippet’s title, images can dynamically load beneath that snippet. Here is a GIF of it in action. He posted a video of this, that is longer and better quality: Google testing

Google’s John Mueller said he would advice that if “that’s something where if you see that these pages are important enough that people are linking to them then I would try to avoid blocking them by robots txt.” In short, if you have important or popular pages with a lot of links to them, make

Looks like Google is testing yet another layout for the top stories news box in the Google search results. Mateus Nunes from LiveCoins in Brazil sent me a screen shot on Twitter, where you can see this layout has a multiple layouts. Here is his screen shot (click to enlarge): We’ve seen Google test the

Google announced that is will begin to prohibit what is called “sugar” dating, where there is compensated dating or sexual arrangements where one participant is expected to provide money, gifts, financial support, mentorship, or other valuable benefits to another participant. Google said it will begin enforcing the policy update on February 11, 2021, with full

In part one of my talk with Alan Rabinowitz, we spoke about his history in the space and about the nofollow link and if Google counts it. In part two Alan shares how to rank well in Google Search and how to do online reputation management. Content Value: He said it is super important to

Here is another search results interface, this one is from Microsoft Bing. Bing is testing that when you overlay your mouse cursor over a snippet, it protrudes the background of the snippet, making it boxed it, and embossed in the search results page. Frank Sandtmann sent me this GIF to share with you all. I