When it comes to brick and mortar stores, misinformation runs rampant. For instance, search results only send consumers to e-commerce sites, retailers lose the shopper who checks a phone in store, and buyers only visit stores to transact or showroom.Read more…
Building a better hotel search experience for travelers and hoteliers on Google
More useful There are millions of searches for hotels everyday on Google — that’s millions of potential hotel bookings. We want to help hotels reach and engage travelers, make it easier for travelers to search for hotels online, and visuallyRead more…
Bringing street art to your daily life
For more than 20 years, New Yorkers and street art lovers worldwide made the pilgrimage to 5Pointz, a building in Long Island City called the “Graffiti Mecca” because of its brightly colored, ever-changing walls. Artists from around the world coveredRead more…
Celebrating 30 years of .COM and the future of .DOMAINS
When you visited Google today, we’re pretty sure you didn’t type 173.194.113.18 into your browser. This string of numbers separated by periods—an IP address—isn’t nearly as easy or memorable as typing google.com. Domain names ending in things like .COM, .NETRead more…
Helping users fill out online forms
A lot of websites rely on forms for important goals completion, such as completing a transaction on a shopping site or registering on a news site. For many users, online forms mean repeatedly typing common information like their names, emails,Read more…
An update on doorway pages
Google’s Search Quality team is continually working on ways in which to minimize the impact of webspam on users. This includes doorway pages. We have a long-standing view that doorway pages that created solely for search engines can harm theRead more…
Through the Google lens: Search trends March 6 – 12
This week, runways, verdicts and diapers were the the talk of the town on search. Read on to learn more. Preachin’ papas“Dude, where’s my baby changing table?” That’s what actor Ashton Kutcher was wondering on social media after he observedRead more…
Deprecation of the old Webmaster Tools API
Last fall we announced the new Webmaster Tools API, which helps you to automate a number of important aspects using code. With the pending shutdown of ClientLogin, we’re going to turn down the old Webmaster Tools API on April 20,Read more…
Protecting people across the web with Google Safe Browsing
Online security is on everybody’s minds these days, so we want to give you updates about various ways Google keeps you safe online. Today, on the web’s birthday, we’re highlighting recent improvements to Safe Browsing, technology that protects more thanRead more…
For What’s Next: the new Chromebook Pixel and USB Type-C
Today we’re introducing an updated, more powerful Chromebook Pixel. While the new Pixel has many improvements, one feature that is especially exciting is universal charging, data, and display in the form of USB Type-C. We joined forces with the USBRead more…