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Here is a photo from the Google Atlanta office of a cool-looking room with a retro-looking sofa. Of course, the sofa is in Googley colors. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry

Google announced last week that Google Search “now makes it easier to search for datasets” by showing “more datasets” and explore more features for datasets within Google Search. To be fair, Google has had datasets in Google Search for several years now and Google even has Search Console datasets report for the supported schema. We

Google Explore is that weird feature you get when you keep scrolling and scrolling through the search results. Then Google hits you with this explore feature to expand your query in a very visual way. Well, it seems like Google added local listings to the Google Explore section. We’ve seen Google expand the explore feature

Google may be testing replacing the “people also ask” with a “more to ask” box. Google is also testing “People are also asking” and “Others want to know” too, instead of people also ask. I am unsure if this is just a headline change or if there is any functional difference between the “more to

Google’s John Mueller was asked if having hyphens in your domain name, like www.my-site-goes-here.com, can cause ranking issues in Google Search. John Mueller said no, domains with hyphens are not seen as low quality by Google algorithms. Here are those tweets: I’m tempted to answer something sarcastic, but no. — John Mueller is watching out

Google is now showing products that businesses add through the Google Business Profile manager directly in Google Shopping search results. I was not sure if this is new, but it seems most local SEOs think it is, so I am sharing it here. This was spotted by Colan Nielsen who posted this example on Twitter.

We’ve seen many many fire pits at the Google offices and events. Here is a new one from what appears to be a leadership event by the Google Podcast folks. I believe this was taken at the Pennsylvania Convention Center near one of the Google offices in that area. Previous fire pits were at the

After many months of testing, Google has launched the highlights in the featured snippets within the Google search results. Google seems to have gone with the blue highlights, not the yellow, as we previously reported on both styles. Here is a screenshot – again, it seems to be fully live. Do note that not all