If you loved the Emoji symbols found in the Google search results, it’s time to say goodbye to them, as Google is getting rid of them.  But at least there’s a silver lining.  It seems this is only happening to just the desktop search results. Google started displaying Emojis on desktop search results a few weeks ago, […]

It’s nice to more information finally coming out about the Twitter/Google integration that involves Tweets being placed into Google’s search results for trending topics.  A screen shot was shared with Search Engine Land this morning by Dan Martin from Razorfish that looks like a possible test by Google displaying Twitter content within the search results. According […]

A new Google mobile search results test was discovered by a reader from Almaty City, Kazakhstan, while using the Chrome browser on his Android device.  The new user interface shows four colored dots at the right bottom portion of the search result snippets.So what happens if you click on the colored dots?  Well, basically it […]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_text]One of the many uses that the internet in general has allowed us to do is share our favorite food recipes with others.  Now, Bing has decided to test showing recipe answers […]

Have you ever been using Google and wished that the search engine would show emojis?  Well now, you can stop dreaming, because Google is now showing emojis in full color in the desktop search results.  At first, you may think, “why would Google even bother giving emojis the time of day in the search results?” […]

Google likes to make changes to their search results to see how it affects those who search on their platform.  In this case, Google has decided that they are now bolding answers in the search results, not just the query or the synonym of a user’s query. Lets say you did a search for [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left […]

Have you heard of Periscope and Meerkat?  If you’ve been keeping up with industry news, I’m sure you’ve at least heard of their names.  For a quick recap, Twitter acquired live-streaming app Periscope back in January for a reported $100 million.  Then, only a month later, Meerkat launched.  Quickly, Meerkat built a user base of 500,000 […]

It seems that Google is testing a small change to the search results.  This particular test is focused around not displaying the line break or line separator between the search ads at the top of the search results and the organic listings below the ads. This test was discovered by a reader, Frederik Hyldig, who provided […]

Some may say that Bing is being either wisely confident, or overly confident in this newest bit of news.  Bing could possibly drop there paginated search results for search results that they think are “the most relevant results” for the query. This means that if you do a long tail query, you could find, at the […]

Google has decided to spruce up their knowledge graph cards in the mobile search interface by adding a little bit of color.  If you type in the right queries in the search that may trigger the knowledge graph, you may in be in for a colorful surprise.  Alex Chitu from Google Operating System spotted these colorful additions […]