TeqEdge Blog

Google Christmas logo is not the only thing new today. For the first time in years Google changes the default homepage of Google.com and introduces various search options. This is only available for users logged in using a Google account.

As the above screenshot shows Google introduced the following options directly on the homepage.

• – (default)
• Categories
• Description
• Email
• Firstname
• Keywords
• Keywords””
• Language
• Lastname
• Linkspage
• Login
• Password
• Rss
• Title
• url

Ever had a question about the snippets showing up on a Google search page? Look no further. Matt Cutts explains the new enhancements made to enhance your search experience on Google. Who is Matt Cutts? He is a Google software engineer since January 2000, currently the head of Google’s Webspam team.

The video starts off with how Google assesses the page title and how it might vary on the search results even though it might say something different on your site. He then proceeds to discuss the different parts of a snippet and covers the brief description about the page (think About Us page or Open Directory Project description). Video also covers the significance of the plus box to show more information directly on the search page such as map address, or stock quote history. Cached page features such as the last crawled date and time are also discussed along with how site links is obtained using the Google search algorithm and is not edited manually. By the way Matt also clarifies that no money is involved in generating the site links.