Every search matters. That is why whenever you come to Google Search to find relevant and useful information, it is our ongoing commitment to make sure users receive the highest quality results possi…
We are excited to introduce our newest video series: “ Search For Beginners ”! The series was created primarily to help new webmasters. It is also for anyone with an interest in Search or anyone who …
The world of search is constantly evolving. New tools, opportunities, and features are regularly arriving, sometimes existing things change, and sometimes we say goodbye to some things to make way fo…
Google uses content previews, including text snippets and other media, to help people decide whether a result is relevant to their query. The type of preview shown depends on many factors, including…
Most of the time, our search engine runs properly. Our teams work hard to prevent technical issues that could affect our users who are searching the web, or webmasters whose sites we index and serve…
Google Images has made a series of changes to help people explore, learn and do more through visual search. An important element of visual search is the ability for users to scan many ideas before c…
Today we are rolling out support in Google Search’s AMP web results (also known as “blue links”) to link to signed exchanges , an emerging new feature of the web enabled by the IETF web packaging sp…
Discover is a popular way for users to stay up-to-date on all their favorite topics, even when they’re not searching. To provide publishers and sites visibility into their Discover traffic, we're…
Sometimes a web page can be reached by using more than one URL. In such cases, Google tries to determine the best URL to display in search and to use in other ways. We call this the “canonical URL.” …
With the New Year now underway, we'd like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead publishers to more success within Google News in 2019. General advice There is a lot of helpful…
Over the past few years, it's become easier than ever to stream live videos online, from celebrity updates to special events. But it's not always easy for people to determine which videos are…
People come to Google seeking information about all kinds of questions. Frequently, the information they're looking for is on sites where users ask and answer each other's questions. Popular …
Last June we launched a job search experience that has since connected tens of millions of job seekers around the world with relevant job opportunities from third party providers across the web. Ti…
Last year, we launched job search on Google to connect more people with jobs. When you provide Job Posting structured data , it helps drive more relevant traffic to your page by connecting job seeke…
Update July 9, 2018: The Speed Update is now rolling out for all users. People want to be able to find answers to their questions as fast as possible — studies show that people really care about th…
The AJAX crawling scheme was introduced as a way of making JavaScript-based webpages accessible to Googlebot, and we've previously announced our plans to turn it down . Over time, Google engine…
Lately we’ve been receiving feedback from users seeing non-events like coupons or vouchers showing up in search results where “events” snippets appear. This is really confusing for users and also ag…
To improve our users' experience with AMP results, we are making changes to how we enforce our policy on content parity with AMP. Starting Feb 1, 2018, the policy requires that the AMP page conte…
In June, we announced a new experience that put the convenience of Search into the hands of job seekers. Today, we are taking the next step in improving the job search experience on Google by adding…
In Google’s mission to organize the world's information, we want to guide Google users to the highest quality content, the principle exemplified in our quality rater guidelines . Professional pu…
