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Last week, Google began showing non-AMP content in the top stories carousel in mobile search. This was as expected with the page experience update rollout. But Kyle Sutton posted on Twitter that in some cases Google may even show the non-AMP URL in the top stories carousel when there is an AMP version available – […]

Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed that having a hover over expandable text for navigational elements is not considered cloaking by Google. Martin said doing this is “Deffo not cloaking.” Kristine Schachinger asked about this on Twitter “if a client wanted to add some text to their menus for clients on user interaction like hover (which means

Google has confirmed that on June 28, 2021 it has released part two of the search “spam update.” Part two of the update started and completed on a single day, June 28th, like part one did on June 23rd. This impacted global searches across both web and image results. So far, I am honestly not

I am not sure if these photos are new, I mean, they were just uploaded, maybe some folks are back in the Google Kirkland office and the cafe made these pride cupcakes? Or maybe it is from a previous year. You can see more photos of these delicious looking cupcakes on Instagram, with a video

Here is a photo from 2019 of a Spock cardboard cut with John Mueller’s face on it at the Google Zurich office. We’ve seen this Spock cut out before, it was the badge holder. We’ve also seen John’s face on it before. But here, this photo from Martin Splitt of Google shows him marking the

Google has added a help document that has shows how How HTTP status codes, and network and DNS errors affect Google Search. The page goes through each type of code and error and tell you how GoogleBot and Google Search will be impacted by it. You can find this help document over here. It says

Last December, Google told us they are retiring the Google AdSense link units, one of the early popular ad formats within Google AdSense. Google just announced the company has “now reached the final stage of that process” by “removing fixed-sized link units from the AdSense interface.” Google wrote “Last year, we announced that link units

Google’s John Mueller was asked in the video hangout this past Friday if how to handle brand or product names with accented characters, like maybe Škoda Auto via Skoda Auto. Do you use the word spelled Škoda with the accent in the name or Skoda without it? The answer is probably include both variations in

My first inside meeting since COVID made us close the office in March 2019 was with the Mad Mango team; Aaron Uscilla and Robert DeFeo. These two young entrepreneurs were super fun to talk to, their energy, passion and desire to grow was very inspirational. We spoke about how the two started their company, starting

A couple of years ago we saw Google show related to your search for the Google Local Posts. Now Google is showing “related to your search” section for the Google Local Q&A area. Allie Margeson posted some screenshots of this in action on Twitter where she said “Spotted Q&A “related to your search” triggered in