Google is officially adding app interstitials to the mobile friendly test, a month after I spotted Google’s plans to add the change. This means that webpages that serve users an interstitial when they click through from the Google search results will be impacted by this change. App interstitials will begin showing as an error in […]
Archives for September 1, 2015
Google Launches Brand New Logo & Branding
Hot on the heels of Google creating parent company Alphabet, Google has now released a new logo they feel better reflects the many facets and areas of Google. The Google still uses the same familiar color scheme that users know and love, but with a brand new typeface to go with it. Here is the […]
Google Deprecating Web Hosting via Google Drive… Finally
Google is deprecating discontinuing support for those who host websites on Google Drive, a little known feature that has been available for three years, but one that has definitely caused issues. “Websites” had been hosted via Google Drive with a googledrive.com/host/[doc id] address, but that left plenty of room for some confusion when it came […]
Google Expanding AdWords Home Service Ads
Google caused considerable interest when they began running Home Service Ads as a pay per lead beta test in San Francisco for both plumbers and locksmiths. It seems to be testing well, as Google has added several new service categories to the beta. The new service categories are house cleaner and handyman. It looks as […]
AdWords Newest Ad Extension Announced: Structured Snippets
Google AdWords is rolling out structured snippet extensions as an option to the dynamic ad extension released easier this year. The original ad extension was dynamic and automatically generated. The information that appears in an ad’s snippet reflects categories of content found on the advertisers site. They are intended to highlight a specific aspect of […]
Google Adds New Weather-Related Search Features
Google has stepped up their game in the weather department by adding some new features for weather that show in the Google search results. First, Google is now showing weather information via Google autosuggest when people search for “weather ” in Google Search. The autosuggest shows the current weather information for the location searched for. […]