According to an announcement by Google, a new feature is rolling out that, before clicking on a search result, Google will communicate more information about that search result snippet that they are looking at. This “about this result” box can be triggered when tapping on the three little dots on the top right corner o […]
On October 5, Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has been rebranded to become Microsoft Bing. Not only that, the logo has been updated as well to go along with this new rebranding. In addition to this rebranding, an expansion of Give with Bing has been announced. With this Microsoft Awards expansion, users can donate the points […]
On August 18, Google announced that Google has updated its Activity cards to add jobs, recipe and online shopping to its list. Activity cards useful for when you are constantly searching for the same question or topic in Google search. With these new features, it will make it easy for users to take the steps needed to […]
Last week, Google announced on Twitter that it will start testing more variations and changes to the desktop search results based on early feedback from users around the favicon and black ad label rollout on desktop. According to Google, with the mobile rollout that happened several months ago, that “design has been well received by users on mobile screens, […]
Brands and users alike are being given more control over their social narratives on Twitter with the ability to hide Tweet replies.. This feature began rolling out globally on November 22 (check out the blog post here) after months of testing in select countries, which includes Canada and the US. “Currently, repliers can shift the […]
Google shows video results in its search results quite often. Google has a feature to show suggested clips, a method to jump you to the portion of the video that answers your specific query. It looks like now, Google is testing showing “in this video,” which is a timeline that shows you what sections of […]
Google has confirmed that it is testing a feature that takes the searcher from the search results page to a third-party site and anchors them to that exact location on the site while highlighting that content. Although this is what Google originally did on mobile through the AMP cache, this is now being tested on desktop […]
It appears that, after about a month or so of testing, Google has launched a new design and interface for the image search preview box. This new box displays the image in a larger frame, with more details about the image and other related images. The image search box sticks to the right side, so […]
There are some folks who are sharing screenshots on Twitter of a feature in the Google search results that lets you share search results. It as three icons, one to share, one that opens the cache page and one to open the result in a new window. Here are some tweets that were posted about […]
After a few months of testing, Google has begun rolling out the new search bar with icons. Rather than using text to show the various search categories or verticals for news, video, images, maps, shopping and the like, Google displays icons that represent those categories as well. The following image was taken from the PC version […]