Google began testing another bold new local feature in the local knowledge panels.  The test shows icons to represent the “highlights” of the venue featured in the local panel.  These icons can include icons for features such as the venue being a quite place, casual place,, great for kids, great beer selection, critic’s list, great […]

If you’re a “featured snippet” on Google’s search results, at this point you’ve been allowed to effectively double-dip when it comes to being visible on Google’s search results page.  But soon, this is going to change. Typically, if there is a site that has been selected as a features snippet, it will appear at the […]

Even more is being added to the Bing home page, an now offers the backstory for the image of the day, as well as a gallery of past featured pictures. This addition rolled out on May 2nd, giving users the ability to scroll down on the home page and see a brief summary of the featured image […]

When it comes to Twitter, the term “bot” can be a little tricky, and this could be why, despite all the hype around chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger, Kik, Slack and Skype, Twitter’s own effort concerning chatbots have stayed more or less under the radar.  But this isn’t going to be the case any longer. […]

Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that they’ve been experimenting with something new in the search results.  Barry Schwartz happened to stumble upon results snippet in Goggle that showed “tags” within the snippet.  The odd part is that the “tags” didn’t offer any additional functionality. A list of “tags” that were relevant to the page content would be […]

When trying to join in on a Twitter discussion, there are plenty of times when trying to get your point across, it can be a little tricky.  When responding to, or including others within your tweets, you are reducing the size of your overall message space per tweet.  Yesterday, on March 30th, Twitter announced that […]

Currently, Google is testing a new format for their local search results on mobile when bringing up the Google Maps local finder.  The new results aren’t viewed in a vertical list view, but instead, a horizontal card-style view.  With this particular card-style view, you need to swipe the cards horizontally to see more local results. […]

It’s been confirmed by Google (with Search Engine Land) that they have brought the ability for emojis to be displayed in in the search results listing page. Google had removed emojis from showing up in the results back in June of 2015 after they promised to disable them over webmaster abuse. It appears that Google has had a a change […]

It seems that there have been complaints from webmasters saying that their image search traffic from Google has been dropping significantly, mainly from countries like France, Germany and other countries outside the US.  The traffic drop is due to Google releasing the 2013 version of the Google Images design to more countries over the last few weeks. Once the […]

Ever since Facebook Facebook began playing videos automatically in people’s news feeds back in December 2013,  on mobile Facebook will now play those videos automatically with the sound on by default.  This news was announced on Tuesday. There was more news that was announced surrounding videos playing on small screens, like larger vertical videos and videos that play […]