• Google Search With 16 Shopping Ads

    It is good to have choices but too many choices might not be good, said some wise man. Well, here is Google giving you 16 choices of bikes in the shopping ad spot at the top of the Google Search results.This was spotted by Mike Hardaker and he shared this screenshot with me on X - here it is:I tried to replicate it, but I was unable to. I suspect this is some sort of weird bug?I mean, I was able to see the normal carousel ads:I also saw the right side ads:And those new vertical tall ads:This...

  • What Did Israelis Search For On Google During The Iranian Attack?

    What did thousands of Israelis type into Google’s search engine during the tense hours of the Iranian attack overnight Motzei Shabbos? Ynet reviewed the data and found that they were searching for “Tehillim” and “Tikkun HaKlali.” Already on Motzei Shabbos, in the hours ahead of the impending attack, there was an increase in the search […]

  • Why your Google search results may look different

    Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.

  • Why your Google search results may look different

    Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.

  • Google accused of making it harder to search for rival

    In a complaint to the EU, email firm Tuta says it suddenly became much less visible in Google search.

  • Report: How Prabhakar Raghavan Killed Google Search

    Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground, he said.Everyone in the SEO/SEM space is talking about this article and I came back to the SEO on fire. If you have not read it yet, you should.Update: I added Google's statements to this below:I'll...

  • Meta AI adds Google Search results

    Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.

  • Head of Google Search demands urgency as growth slows

    Google Senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan blames increasing competition, costs and regulation for a 'new operating reality'.

  • How one power-hungry leader destroyed Google search

    Google's search engine was once the crown jewel of the Internet, but one executive's power grab led to its spectacular downfall, reports tech writer Edward Zitron in his newsletter article, titled "The Man Who Killed Google Search." In 2019, Google's ads team raised a "code yellow" alarm due to declining search revenue growth. — Read the rest

  • This Google Update Fixes Missed-Call Bug on Pixels

    Google has released the latest Pixel OTA update, which the tech giant says will address certain cellular issues that users have reported on the Pixel 7, Pixel 8, and Pixel Fold.

  • Google Notes On Search Won't Necessarily Go Away In May

    There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end date of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to be turned off by then. Just because it has that end date listed, it does not mean the labs experiment will end on that date.As a reminder, the Google Search Generative Experience SGE labs experiment had listed an end date of December 2023. But then came December and Google decided to remove the date and extended SGE as a labs...

  • Woman calls 911 over buying bad batch of meth

    APRIL 17--An Indiana woman is facing a narcotics charge after she called 911 to report purchasing an inferior batch of methamphetamine and say that she wanted to file charges against her drug dealer,