published @ November 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I'm Dan Russell, a member of the Search Quality team doing user experience research. This post is part of our ongoing series to talk about the Search Quality team at Google, showing a bit of what we do in the day-to-day course of improving the quality of the user experience.The role of "user experience" [...]
published @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The long, long election campaign season culminated today as people made their choices on hundreds of statewide and local contests as well as the race for the next U.S. president. We've kept an eye on Google Hot Trends to decipher what may be meaningful, as well as searches that are "business as usual" on Google. [...]
published @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the "white spaces" spectrum -- the unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels -- for wireless broadband service for the public. This [...]
published @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The long, long election campaign season culminates today as people make their choices on hundreds of statewide and local contests as well as the race for the next U.S. president. Throughout the day, we're keeping an eye on Google Hot Trends to decipher what may be meaningful, as well as what's "business as usual" in [...]
published @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The long, long election campaign season culminates today as people make their choices on hundreds of statewide and local contests as well as the race for the next U.S. president. Throughout the day, we're keeping an eye on Google Hot Trends to decipher what may be meaningful, as well as what's "business as usual" in [...]
published @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Note: Click on the first result in each of the search results pages linked to throughout the post to see this feature in action.)A scanner is a wonderful tool. Every day, people all over the world post scanned documents online -- everything from official government reports to obscure academic papers. These files usually contain images [...]
published @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In a world where governments all too often censor what their citizens can see and do on the Internet, Google has from the start promoted global free expression and taken the lead in being transparent with our users. We've pressed governments around the world to stop limiting free speech and made it possible for [...]
published @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Google was built on the principle of making the world's information more accessible and useful. Before the company was even founded, Larry and Sergey imagined a way to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to access the information held within the world's books. Search simply isn't complete without that content, and providing more access [...]
published @ October 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Pay no attention this to page with a noindex tag. I just want to check on how Yahoo/Live/Ask treat pages with noindex meta tags.
Update: Just for the curious, here’s how other search engines treated the noindex meta tag in 2006. Also note that this page is fine for search engines to index; it’s the destination [...]
published @ October 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We first launched quote extraction in Google News in April, offering you a way to browse quotations extracted from the past 30 days of news. While a great tool to see what people are saying on important topics and how they compare, it was missing something.Today we are pleased to announce the launch of [...]
published @ October 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At 9 a.m. Pacific time (noon Eastern) today, we’re going to do our third Google webmaster chat. People will be able to ask questions via Google moderator and we’ll answer a bunch either in Google moderator or over the audio portion of the chat. There will also be several Googlers doing short presentations. I hope [...]
published @ October 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble……..
Halloween is now the third most lucrative trading period after Christmas & Easter & ahead of Bonfire Night & Valentines Day, so it’s well worth ensuring your campaigns are fully optimised to get the most from this valuable traffic season.
Be Creative:Halloween is about more than [...]
published @ October 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This week we launched a set of new features to all iGoogle users in the U.S. These features were designed to make it more powerful and bring more information to the homepage.At the heart of this release is a feature we call "canvas view," which gives you the option to maximize your gadgets into [...]
published @ October 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last night, Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama met at New York's Hofstra University for the last 2008 U.S. presidential debate. CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer moderated the format of two-minute candidate answers followed by five minutes of discussion. This format gave Senators Obama and McCain more time to debate each [...]
published @ October 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There's some interest in how and why "quality scores" are used in search engine ad auctions. In this post, we will try to describe "why" we use quality scores; a later post will go into "how," including more information about bids.When a user types a query into a search engine, it will typically [...]