published @ May 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
As we prepared to write this post, we discovered a common childhood passion for fast things: high-speed trains, roller coasters, firetrucks, and more. That may be a key part of why we're so excited to be working on Google Suggest, since it saves time by giving suggestions as we're typing our searches.Today, we're introducing [...]
published @ May 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
On Tuesday, we announced Search Options, which are a collection of tools that let you slice and dice your results and generate different views to find what you need faster and easier. We know that people search for a wide variety of things and we're continually thinking of new search features to help them [...]
published @ May 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
As we blogged last summer, there are lots of experiments running on Google web search all over the world. Today we've started a temporary experiment that some people might find interesting: we're researching how Google users search the Internet when they or someone they know is feeling sick.Understanding how people search when they're feeling [...]
published @ May 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today, we're pleased to announce that the winner of our Knol for Dummies.com contest is "How to talk to your doctor" by Dr. Jennifer Frank, whose knol about "getting the most out of a short-but-sweet office visit" was selected for its quality, clarity, and usefulness. It will be featured on Dummies.com, and she will [...]
published @ May 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today we are hosting our second Searchology event, to update our users, partners, and customers on the progress we have made in search and tell them about new features. Our first Searchology was two years ago, when we were excited to launch Universal Search, a feature that blended results of different types (web pages, [...]
published @ May 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Working on the search team over the last few years, I have heard interesting stories of how Google has made a difference to individuals across the world. For instance, Yanick Cusson from Canada wrote to tell us about how he found his father:"I will always remember the very first day I got Internet at [...]
published @ May 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
One thing we've noticed here at Google over the years is that the more popular something becomes, the more people search for it online. Our annual zeitgeist catalogs some of the more interesting trends we've seen in a year's worth of web search data. We also like to keep our eye out for [...]
published @ April 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Earthquakes are not the only thing that can shake Silicon Valley. After the dot-com bubble burst back in 2000 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara county went up to 9.1%. During the last couple of months, it has gone up again: We just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find [...]
published @ April 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
One of the best things about working on the Google Toolbar team is that when someone says "Wouldn't it be great if Toolbar could...," our answer is usually "Yes! Let's build it!" And then it's just a question of when. To test these ideas more easily, today we're introducing Google Toolbar Labs. Just as [...]
published @ April 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I scheduled some time today to record video, so I opened up a thread for questions. Post your questions over on Google Moderator so that I can see which questions are popular. I’ve only got 45-60 minutes, so I can’t answer every question, but I’ll try to answer several popular questions and a few interesting [...]
published @ April 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This weekend my wife and I went shopping for a birthday present for our 5-year-old nephew, and as usual we were looking for a gift at the last minute. We found ourselves in the toy aisle of a local store, unsure what to buy or how much these toys should cost. It could have [...]
published @ April 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren't always what you want people to see — whether it's someone else with your name, or the finishing [...]
published @ April 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet
At Google, we believe that ads are a valuable source of information — one that can connect people to the advertisers offering products, services and ideas that interest them. By making ads more relevant, and improving the connection between advertisers and our users, we can create more value for everyone. Users get more useful [...]
published @ April 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
No one likes to take work home, but lately I've been looking forward to it. That's because I've been working on our new color filter in Google Image Search, and my daughter and I have been having a great time together looking at all the colorful animals that we've seen in the tide pools. [...]
published @ April 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
If you're like us, you're constantly looking for things in your neighborhood, whether it's [restaurants in zurich] or a new [dentist in houston]. If you specify your location in your query, we often show your results on a map. But we've noticed that much of the time users make simpler searches, like [restaurants] or [...]