published @ April 5, 2011 # No Comment Yet
The tech world has recently seen an explosion in patent litigation, often involving low-quality software patents, which threatens to stifle innovation. Some of these lawsuits have been filed by people or companies that have never actually created anything; others are motivated by a desire to block competing products or profit from the success of [...]
published @ April 2, 2011 # No Comment Yet
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.This week we made a few updates to help people around the world access relevant information. We introduced a new +1 button to help [...]
published @ March 31, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Our goal at Google is to get you the most relevant results as quickly as possible. But relevance is about relationships as well as words on webpages. That’s why we recently started to include more information from people you know—stuff they’ve shared on Twitter, Flickr and other sites—in Google search results.Today we’re taking that [...]
published @ March 26, 2011 # No Comment Yet
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.Time is a precious commodity for most of us. To save you more precious seconds as you search, we’ve introduced Google Instant in Places [...]
published @ March 25, 2011 # No Comment Yet
With the help of Cherokee Nation staff and community members, we’ve added Cherokee () as an interface language on Google, making a small contribution towards preserving one of the world’s endangered languages. You can now select Cherokee as your default from the Language Tools page (available from the right of the search box), and [...]
published @ March 12, 2011 # No Comment Yet
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.When searching, sometimes you have a pretty good idea of what you want to see and what you don’t. With features like Google Instant [...]
published @ March 11, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Over the years we’ve experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings. Now there’s yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you don’t want to see.You’ve probably had [...]
published @ March 8, 2011 # No Comment Yet
(Cross-posted from the Mobile Blog)Instant Previews provides a fast and interactive way to evaluate search results. Starting today, Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices across 38 languages. Similar to the desktop version of Instant Previews, you can visually compare search results from webpage snapshots, making it easier to [...]
published @ February 25, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day [...]
published @ February 24, 2011 # No Comment Yet
As a second-generation Indian who has grown up in the United States, I’ve developed a taste for great home-cooked Indian food, but not a knack for how to make it. Somehow my cooking efforts result in foods that taste over-spiced yet bland at the same time. My parents follow the art of cooking by [...]
published @ February 17, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. [...]
published @ February 16, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Each year, as the Academy Awards bubble to the top of our collective consciousness, we see a major spike in search traffic related to the event. This year, on the day the nominees were announced, four of the top 10 trending search terms in the U.S. were Oscar-related.After last year’s awards ceremony, we [...]
published @ February 15, 2011 # No Comment Yet
(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog)We’ve been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from users. To that end, today we’re launching an early, experimental Chrome extension so people can block sites from their web search results. If [...]
published @ February 12, 2011 # No Comment Yet
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.With features like Instant, the dynamic left-hand panel of tools, voice search and Google Goggles, search is becoming more interactive all the time. You [...]
published @ February 5, 2011 # No Comment Yet
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.This week it got just a bit faster to find the right things to buy and the right places to go, with a little [...]