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Google is testing a version of the Android app that include additional search buttons, many of which the iOS app has had since last year. These buttons include solve homework, identify a song, shop for products, translate text and more. This was spotted by Glenn Gabe and he posted some screenshots on Twitter, I made […]

Google said starting on May 23, 2023, Google will disallow and prohibit ads that sell products with a concentration of more than 10% sodium nitrite. I am sure this may impact less than 1% of you, but I wanted to ask MidJourney to make an image of Google salt. This impacts both Google Ads and

If you do some translation-based queries in Google mobile search, you will not just see a Google logo icon but also Google testing a camera icon, to search by camera. This was spotted the other day by Khushal Bherwani and posted on Twitter, and I can replicate this. Here is a screenshot you can click

This week in search, we covered the new April 2023 reviews update that goes beyond just product reviews. We also covered the possible impact the Google March 2023 broad core update had on local search. Google’s John Mueller said they don’t launch algorithm updates and say they got everything wrong. Google released its web spam

Google announced it will remove the video thumbnail image from the search results snippet when that video is not the main content of the page. Google said this change will impact search appearance reported metrics for videos in the performance report in Google Search Console. Here is the change: Google said the “video thumbnails only

Ahrefs offers a wide range of free SEO tools for digital marketers on a tight budget. In this article, I’m going to walk you through each tool and when to use it. Setting up your website for success means starting with the basics: making sure it’s in good shape, both from a technical and backlink standpoint.

We saw a dental practice named “dentist near me” and a coffee shop named “coffee shop near me” – and here is a restaurant named “Thai Food Near Me.” This one was spotted by Alicia Tatone on Twitter. Generally, naming your business this way is a bad idea for SEO, believe it or not. This

On the heels of the March Broad Core Update rolling out, Google is now rolling out the April 2023 Reviews Update. And you’re reading that correctly… “Product” has been removed from the name now that the system covers “reviews about products, services, and things”. Released the April 2023 reviews update, which now covers reviews about

A couple of weeks ago, I reported how Google tested a thumbnail image slider in the product grid results in the Google Search results on the desktop interface. Now Google is testing this on the mobile search interface, and it seems to slide automatically without flicking to scroll or slide. Here is an animated GIF