published @ December 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Google's users are intrinsically curious. Why else would you search? And, since we at Google are pretty curious ourselves, we wondered which of our users' queries might be truly global and which may be unique to certain cultures. This is why, for the first time, our annual Year-End Zeitgeist features search [...]
published @ December 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The rivalry has become a social phenomenon, from YouTube videos condemning pirates' accents to movies predicting the outcome of a final showdown, and games that let you decide who's the mightiest. The clash comes to a head twice a year: Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th, and the Day of the Ninja [...]
published @ December 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Another day, another video interview. This one was with Greg Jarboe at SES San Jose. You can watch it on the Search Engine Strategies channel on YouTube, or I’ll embed it below:
Some of the things we discussed: - a quick story about interviewing at Google in 1999 - the opportunities of cell phones [...]
published @ December 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I spoke at a few conferences in the second half of 2008, and a video interview from PubCon recently came out.
The always-charming Mike McDonald and I did a 10 minute video interview at PubCon a couple weeks ago. A few of the topics that this interview covers:
- how personalized search affects SEO and [...]
published @ December 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today is Cyber Monday and we know many of you have holiday shopping on your mind. If you're not sure what to buy for that special someone, or if you're looking for ways to save on your holiday purchases, Google Product Search and Google Checkout can help.Our Product Search team recently pored over millions [...]
published @ November 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In previous posts in this series, you have read about the challenges of building a world-class search engine. Our goal is to make Google’s search be relevant to all people, regardless of their language or country. As my colleague Amit Singhal described, we use statistical data as the basis for making sweeping algorithmic changes. [...]
published @ November 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. [...]
published @ November 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search [...]
published @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here are some tips to help you get the most out of Google’s new Mobile Application for the iPhone.
To get Google Mobile App on your iPhone, go to the App Store and search for “Google Mobile App,” or click on this link to install from a computer. If you have an older version of [...]
published @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have a very good feeling about Google’s new iPhone app that does voice recognition. I’ve been playing with this voice recognition application for several weeks and I have to say that I’m really impressed. First and foremost, the voice recognition works really well. Crazy long-tail specialized vocabulary is tricky (more on that later), but [...]
published @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m not sure what Google Docs market share is, but I thought it would be interesting to mention a couple data points and add a new data point.
Data point #1: Compete. Compete just estimated that 4.4M visitors stopped by Google Docs in September, which is just a hair below 2.4% of the U.S. online population, [...]
published @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Have you ever been in a hurry and really needed to find an answer to something, but there was no one to ask? Like when you're grocery shopping and looking for the last item on your list, the kids are running around you in circles, you're holding a basket in one hand, and you [...]
published @ November 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed.Google search isn't just about looking up football scores from last weekend or finding a great hotel for your next vacation. It can also be used for the [...]
published @ November 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I arrive Wednesday afternoon for the 2008 Pubcon conference, and I’ll be staying until after the networking event on the last day, which is the heart of the event. It’s the heart because the networking event is held at a pub, and the original idea of Pubcon was that some of the best parts of [...]
published @ November 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Every so often I get an email like this:
Dear Webmaster,
I have browsed your site and I’m interested in purchasing advertising space in it. I am mainly interested in placing a new page on your site with content and links that I will supply.
Please let me know if you would like to discuss [...]