Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google web search'

Last night, I had a nice chat with Googler, JohnMu. I joked around with John, asking if he has messed up yet, in terms of Google communication with webmasters. He said not really - which I agree with. But he...

Posted on June 5, 2008 10:05 AM

Talk about theories! A WebmasterWorld thread has a theory that was posted by senior member, travelin cat, who noticed that his top ranking pages tend to have related YouTube video's embedded on them. The YouTube videos are not his videos,...

Posted on May 29, 2008 7:40 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has some discussion over one member spotting a Google IP address navigating through his site. The IP address originates from the Mountain View location and resolves to Google, so he is convinced a Googler is manually reviewing...

Posted on May 23, 2008 7:00 AM

Remember the floating four story I wrote a week or so ago? Basically how a search result would be in the fourth position and then go so a lower position, then come back to four and then go back again...

Posted on May 21, 2008 9:07 AM

Back in February, I wrote a story named Upper Case & Lower Case Searches May Return Different Google Search Results. Since then, the discussion on that topic has died off. But in the past month or so, more and more...

Posted on May 21, 2008 8:49 AM

Google has finally written a formal post at the Google Webmaster Central blog named Best practices when moving your site. It honestly is a nice place to send a client or webmaster when the question comes up. Does it give...

Posted on April 17, 2008 7:33 AM

We should have seen this coming, based on the number of reports that Google was submitting GET forms. But often, it is hard to validate those types of reports, due to people spoofing Googlebot and similar tactics. In any event,...

Posted on April 14, 2008 7:50 AM

There are reports from several sources including WebmasterWorld that Google is having a tough time mapping the proper URLs with the associated page titles for those URLs. One report says that Google is treating searches for portal A on a...

Posted on April 10, 2008 8:35 AM

Juicy title, isn't it? Well, that is the topic of discussion at a WebmasterWorld. A senior member decided to post some generic, not specific examples, ways to hurt a website's Google rankings. Here are some of the methods you can...

Posted on April 8, 2008 7:56 AM

A few weeks ago we reported that Google was testing search suggestions as the default option when searching at Google.com. It appears that more people are noticing this new Google Suggest test. A new WebmasterWorld has reports from a couple...

Posted on April 8, 2008 7:46 AM

Google has changed how they handle displaying search results for when you use quotes in the search box and when there are not many or any matches. For example, a search on "super running for life" at Google would normally...

Posted on April 4, 2008 7:55 AM

There is an interesting new bug with Firefox 3 Beta 5, that sends a surfer through a redirect page after clicking on the Google search result. Here is how to reproduce the issue: (1) Be in Firefox 3 Beta 5...

Posted on April 3, 2008 7:18 AM

A couple days ago, I announced on my personal blog that I expanded the keyword list that triggers the Google Co-Op subscribed links from showing up. If you don't remember, the Google Co-Op subscribed links are a way for a...

Posted on April 2, 2008 7:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks why is Google showing RSS feeds in the Google.com web search results. You know you see them. You do a search and an .xml or .rss or atom result comes up in the results. Why does...

Posted on September 6, 2007 7:36 AM

The Google search results landscape has forever changed. Yes, this is a huge deal. With the launch of Google Universal Search, you will see a totally different approach to search results that you have never seen before. Remember we found...

Posted on May 17, 2007 7:46 AM

Barry Welford spotted Google showing Google Blog Search results at the bottom of Google web search results. He posted a screen capture at Cre8asite Forums showing this in action. Here is that screen capture downsized a bit. I have ton...

Posted on May 7, 2007 7:21 AM

I received an email from the fine folks over at the Alacra Blog asking Is Google [site:] command broken? I did my own tests and it seemed fine when I tested it, but they had proof, an image with the...

Posted on September 12, 2006 7:29 AM