Barry Schwartz

DOJ asks the judge in the Google monopoly ruling to have Google sell off Chrome, restrict Android and end default search partner deals. Google AI Overviews may have delayed indexing. Google iOS App has page annotations and a new opt out form. Google sitelinks has new icons and labels. Bing is testing circle shaped favicons, they changed it from circle to square earlier this year.

Similar to the Amazon-style Google product search result carousel snippet, we are seeing other variations of it. This shows products from the retailer; within the search result snippet, you can swipe through it as a carousel.

Google is testing arrow buttons icons at the end of the title link in the search result snippets. Google is also testing them in Sitelinks. I guess this is a way to communicate to searchers that you can click on the search result to go to the web page...

Here is a photo from the Google office in Brazil of an Android statue that was configured to hold the ping pong racket and balls and other accessories. I guess this is a good use for these Android fi

I don't think this is super new but did you know Google Search can show people also searching images, not just people also ask, not just people also search. And when you click on the "people also searching images" option, it takes you to the image tab in Google Search.

Martin Splitt from Google replied to a question on LinkedIn about what we should be concerned about when it comes to rendered and indexed. One of the questions was about network requests. Martin replied, "maybe number of network requests a bit, but also not too much."

— It took some time, but Google's November 2024 core update started to really heat up over the last weekend, it should be done soon.

Google is testing a new format for the Things to know section where instead of showing the results in a list view, Google is showing them side-by-side.

Google Search Console's indexing reports, the page indexing, etc, are often not super up-to-date, but now we hit a 7-day delay, where the report has not been updated in a week now. This report is useful to see if the pages on your website are being indexed by Google, and it is a report that SEOs and site owners often use.

Google Search Console's indexing report is backed up and delayed by 7 days. Google said too many network requests can cause issues for Google Search. Google is testing a people also search in images section that goes from web search to image search. Google is testing things to know side-by-side. Google is testing arrow buttons next to title links and site links. Google is testing product carousel snippets. Plus I posted my weekly SEO video recap, it is worth a watch....