YouTube has recently hidden the number of dislikes for YouTube videos. In a blog post from November , YouTube announced that this was done to "help better protect our creators from harassment, an...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2022/01/bring-back-youtube-dislikes.html
April Fools' Day should probably be called Google Fools' Day, since there are so many Google hoaxes. Google Japan developed a "bubble wrap" version of the Japanese keyboard. "The Google Japan...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/04/google-april-fools-day-2017.html
If you try to send a JavaScript attachment using Gmail or if you want to download a .js attachment, you'll get a new anti-virus warning: "Blocked for security reasons", "1 attachment contains a v...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/02/gmail-blocks-javascript-attachments.html
Google Image Search has a different way to display suggestions: it now shows a long list of colorful boxes with related searches. You can click one or more boxes to dynamically refine search resu...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/google-image-search-shows-colorful.html
Google Image Search's mobile interface tests a new feature that starts playing snippets from a YouTube video at the top of the search results page. It's not disclosed as an ad, there's no sound ...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/google-image-search-starts-playing.html
It looks like YouTube's notification experiment is now a regular feature and you can no longer disable it by clearing cookies. When sign in to your Google account, YouTube's desktop site no long...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2017/01/youtube-desktop-notifications-now-for.html
YouTube has recently started to experiment with replacing Google+ notifications in the navigation bar with YouTube notifications. You get notifications for recently uploaded videos from your subs...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/youtube-notifications-in-navigation-bar.html
Just in time for New Year's dinner, Google has a new mobile interface for recipe search. I searched for and noticed a long list of keywords below the search box and ads: salad, chicken, shrimp, ...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/googles-new-mobile-ui-for-recipe-search.html
For some reason, Google Translate now has a limit of 5000 characters per translation. There's even a character counter at the bottom of the input box. If you happen to paste a long text that has...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/google-translates-5000-character-limit.html
Google's knowledge graph card tests a feature that lets you like or dislike movies and TV shows. For example, when you search for "It's a Wonderful Life", you can click like or dislike and check ...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/google-tests-movie-ratings.html
When you search Google for ], ], ], ] or other related queries, you'll see some special decorations related to each holiday. Festivus is "a holiday celebrated by those seeking an alternative to ...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/googles-holiday-decorations.html
Google's desktop search pages have a new interface for navigating between search results. The search box is bigger, there's a new search icon and Google now only shows 2 or 3 specialized search e...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/12/new-interface-for-google-search.html
Did you know that "male lions defend the pride's territory while females do most of the hunting"? Did you know that "the name humpback whale describes the motion it makes as it arches its back ou...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/random-facts-about-animals-in-google.html
Google Knowledge Graph has more than one billion entities and more than 70 billion facts about these entities (people, places, things). It's huge and it brings a different dimension to search...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/found-in-related-searches.html
I noticed an interesting Google Search experiment in the mobile/tablet interface. When searching for , Google converted my query into a question: "Which alcohol has the highest boiling point?", t...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-converts-queries-into-questions.html
When you search Google for or , you get an error message: "No results for that place. Try entering it below to get suggestions." Google shows a special card for directions with cool features lik...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/googles-card-for-directions.html
I'm not sure if this is a new feature, but it must be pretty recent. Google Maps for Android lets you add home screen shortcuts to directions directly from the app. Just search for directions, ta...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/add-home-screen-shortcuts-to-google.html
Google has a special card that's both a color picker and a color converter. For example, you can search for HEX color codes like #123456 and Google shows the color and converts it to other for...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-color-converter.html
Google intended to discontinue Panoramio back in 2014, shortly after Google Maps Views was launched , but a lot of users complained and Panoramio continued to exist . Now Google announces that ...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-will-shut-down-panoramio.html
Google's mobile search interface shows a new box with related searches after clicking a result and going back to the search page. There's a list called "people also search for", which shows queri...
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2016/10/more-related-searches-in-mobile-google.html