Clear history on google search

People come to Google regularly to get information about complex tasks, whether that’s planning a trip or tackling a home improvement project. These suggestions in Chrome are inspired by past searches and help people continue exploring tasks and activities they’re engaged in more easily on Search. You can dismiss suggestions completely or for a particular task using the menu on the right hand side, or by clearing search history. Here are screen shots: … [Read more...] about Chrome Tests Google Search Suggestions With Explore On Start Screen

Hello everyone. I work for the search team at Google. We are looking into this, to understand better and get it resolved, soon. It's been helpful those who have shared specifics about what seems to trigger it. The more details you can share, the better for us to track this down.It seems for some, clearing cookies, cache and signing in and out helps. For others, removing the web history features has helped. Google has not confirmed if they fixed the issue yet but there does still seem to be searchers complaining about not being able to find results at the time of publishing this story. … [Read more...] about Google Search Won’t Return Search Results For Some Searchers

Open the Chrome browser. Press [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+I to open Developer Tools. Click “Console” and then the “Emulation” tab. If you do not see the Emulation tab while in the Console, press the [ESC] key and it will appear. Within the Emulation tab’s navigation, choose “Sensors.” Check the box next to “Emulate geolocation coordinates.” Open a new tab with a utility like http://www.latlong.net/ to look up the precise latitude and longitude for a locality. Copy and paste the latitude and longitude over to the “Emulate geolocation coordinates” input boxes. Go to Google.com and submit your query to get results that match those you’d get if you were actually in that locality. … [Read more...] about How To Localize Google Search Results

NOTE: Google’s documentation seems to indicate that Activities are only used for private indexing, but Google may also use them as a measurement of engagement for more global evaluations of an app (as Apple does with NSUserActivities in Apple Search). Google has not highlighted their private indexing feature as vocally as Apple, and a user’s private index can be accessed from the Phone icon in the bottom navigation of the Google Now app on Android and iOS. Currently, only Google’s apps (like Gmail) are able to surface privately indexed content in organic Google search results, but we suspect this will be opened up to third-party apps in the future. … [Read more...] about Google Search + Deep Linking

Like I said before, it’s more about the layout than the actual design. A company with a simple design would be rated just as well as a big company with a professional design as long as the information is clear and presented in a way that is easy to understand. To give you an example, a page where you can tell what the main content is with ads taking second page in the design would get a high rating. A page where the ads are confused with the main content, where you can’t tell the difference between content and ads would get a low rating. … [Read more...] about Google Search Quality Rater: An Interview