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Talk about a weird photo, I spotted this gnome hiding in the landscaping at the GooglePlex, the Google Mountain View, California headquarters. Why is it there? Who knows but it is. Next time one of you go to the GooglePlex, see if you can find it… I found this on Instagram. This post is part

Google has replaced the “Trusted Store” badge in the product results within Google Search with a “Top Quality Store” badge. Google said, “there’s no action you need to take, and the update will not affect your performance metrics at all.” Here is an example of the new Top Quality Store badge: Google added, “We’re updating

As Google announced a week or so ago, Bard now can show images in the responses. Jack Krawczyk said on Twitter that you can “click an image to see the source for each one,” and that “Bard includes images in relevant responses and also when you specifically ask for them, starting with English.” Google Bard

There was a bug with Google Jobs Search that wouldn’t show new or recent job listings from the past three days. The issue has been going on for the past several days and after four or so days of it being an issue, Google finally fixed it at around 2 pm ET yesterday. I wanted

This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, from Thursday night, May 25th, through late Saturday night, May 27th. Any stories published here will be scheduled, written beforehand, and not written during the holiday hours. I will be completely offline, so any social media posts, tweets, or

I am seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, this one kicking off on May 22nd and continuing over the next few days. This one is unusual in that I see significant chatter amongst the SEO community, but some of the more popular Google rank-checking tools are not picking up on it.

Google is testing a new feature named “suggestions for your search.” It is an interactive and visual feature to help you expand and dig deeper into your search process. In this case, this is to help you buy a home. Krinal Mehta first spotted this who posted this screenshot on Twitter (click to enlarge it):

Most speech recognition apps have no trouble transcribing a native speaker being recorded with a pro microphone in a quiet room. This isn’t a challenge. So to test them more thoroughly, I created a nightmare recording of two non-native speakers with loud city background noise. How did they fare? Let’s find out. Otter was one of the