In some local knowledge panel results, Google has begun to yield more information about some local businesses, particularly big companies with many local venues.

Additional tabs of information are being shown above the local panel for (a) locations (b) about, and sometimes (c) Google Posts.

Knowledge Panels are not displayed when the new packs are present in SERPs.

The first user to identify this change in Google search results, Sergey Alakov, said it “looks like Google started combining knowledge panels and local packs in mobile search results for businesses that have a knowledge panel displayed for their brand name search and local presence in the user’s area.”

Google has taken a step further, by implementing a subtle, new change to search results across mobile and desktop.

Earlier PowerPoint Presentations (PPTs) and PDFs were uploaded to websites, and were indexed as raw files in the search results.

Now, all the PPTs and PDFs that are produced in the Google’s search results, will be indicated with new labels.

The new labels for PPTs and PDFs in the Google search results are easy to identify while skimming through the results. The feature makes the search a bit more organized and faster.

Right before the Black Friday kicks in next week in the US, Google made several announcements for AdWords advertisers. They rolled out three new features for the latest AdWords interface- AdWords promotion extensions, custom intent audiences & ad variations for testing.

A low-key announcement was made by Google, recently, regarding the new feature that they now support. It is called “selection attributes”. It requires selection of just one out of several predefined choices in the business description.

Google stated an example around kosher foods, saying you can choose from predefined business descriptions like “No Kosher food,” “Some Kosher food,” or “Strictly Kosher food.”

Google recently announced that it will soon roll out a new feature to Google Search, followed by Google Maps, that will show you the estimated waiting time for area restaurants. This recent addition is an expansion of Google’s existing feature which shows businesses’ busy times.

Google’s new restaurant wait times also come from the aggregated and anonymized data from users who opted in to Google Location History – the same data that powers popular times and visit duration.

In case of restaurants, Google will include a pop-up box that appears when you click on a time frame in the popular times chart. The box shows live or historical data labeled as “busy”, “usually busy” and “usually not busy”, along the wait time.