Google Will Link Searchers to 'Key Moments' Within Videos, a New Consideration in Search Results
Google is adding a new search option which will link users to specific moments within YouTube videos related to search queries. Source link
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Searchers make contact with missing crew members
CLOSE Coast Guard rescue teams are searching for crew members after a cargo ship caught fire and capsized in St. Simons Sound off the Georgia coast. USA TODAY Rescuers searching Monday an overturned cargo ship off the Georgia coast say they have drilled into the hull of the Golden Ray and made contact with four crew …
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How Google keeps searchers within its own universe – Econsultancy
Google is gradually evolving from being a provider of website listings into a ‘response engine’ that seems to increasingly stop searchers from moving away from its own ecosystem. The days of Google search results characterised by the ten simple blue organic links per page are long gone. Today, there are dozens of SERP features such …
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Google search results not fully rendering for many searchers
There are widespread complaints in the Google forums about the search results not fully rendering when a search is done. This seems to be happening for some searchers on mobile. Google has confirmed the company is working on a fix. Google’s confirmation. Google posted on Twitter at 3:30pm ET, “We’re aware that for some people, …
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Google AMP URLs not letting searchers click through to main site
There seems to be a bug where when you go to the Google AMP cache version of a page through Google search, clicking on the link to go to the main URL will not work. We tried it ourselves in both Chrome and Safari on an iPhone and clicking on the link does not give …
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Can searchers tell the difference between ads and free listings? Google engineer says ‘yes’
Google has made numerous design and layout changes to their search ads over the years, prompting a grumbling from the search community that the changes were done to confuse searchers into thinking search ads are the same as the organic search results. But Paul Haahr, a senior Google engineer, said on Twitter Sunday that, based …
82% of searchers choose a familiar brand for the first click [study]
When it comes to grabbing a user’s attention on the search engine results page (SERP) in order to win that all-important click, a lot of factors are at work. In search engine optimisation, we tend to focus on ranking – whether it be positions 1-10, or the coveted “position 0” – as one of the …
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