It appears that Google is testing removing the estimated number of results found for a specific search query from the top of the search results. On a normal day, if you do a Google search, you’ll be shown the “about” number of results Google found that matched that query. Google has been testing removing that […]
Bing would love to bring more users via its homepage, and what are they doing to do it? They’re doing trivia, that’s what! The site started posting trivia questions last month in place of “hotspots” on Bing.com. The trivia questions will relate to the image of the day found on Bing’s homepage, and display when you […]
Google AdWords is now testing a new ad extension, which is similar to call ad buttons, for sending SMS or text messages to the advertiser. Check out the following screen shot showing the message icon in the AdWords ad unit: Search Engine Land tried reaching out to Google for more information, and came back with this statement: […]
Rubén Gómez of All Google Testing managed to capture Google testing a gray background color for their homepage. Not only has he found this, but Rubén saw Yahoo testing a new top search bar as well. Regarding the Google homepage test, according to Rubén, comes from a Material design look, which was covered a few weeks ago. He was able […]
When searching around on Google, we’ve seen that box that includes the heading “people also search for,” followed by some more search phrases that expand into additional search results. It looks like Google is now testing a new look for that on the mobile search interface. This look is cleaner, and has a boxed-in look. […]
This month, as usual, Google is showing their support of gay rights this month by displaying a rainbow ribbon for LGBT-related searches that marks Gay Pride Month. There are a number of LGBT terms that will display the Gay Pride inspired artwork across Google’s search results page, which includes: gay pride month gay rights LGBT same sex marriage […]
Are you looking for image thumbnails in the main web search results page when you do food-related searches? It looks like Google is now allowing just this. Most searchers are seeing this now, as Google has tested one way another for months. Even though it would seem it could be related to the new rich cards that is available to […]
If there’s one thing we know about Google, it’s the fact that they’re always testing out new things and playing around with new user interfaces that could make their UX better over time. Google was recently seen testing black instead of blue links in their search results, and now, they seem to be testing two different interfaces. One […]
There are some new features and capabilities that have been added to Google Translate recently, which includes third party app integration, improved and expanded offline mode and visual Word Lens) translation for Chinese languages. The main feature of this update is called “Tap to Translate,” which avoids the need to copy text from on app or page […]
This last weekend saw a widely noticed test by Google that is changing the titles in the search results listing snippets from the traditional blue color to black. The following is an example screen shot of this test in action, as provided by @matibarnes: But, it seems that, just like many tests that Google does, isn’t always going to be […]