published @ October 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Have you ever clicked on a link only to have it unveil an unfriendly "file not found" message? We know it's a bummer, so now Webmaster Tools offers site owners a way to help all of us click seamlessly through the web.For years webmasters have been able to view the URLs on their site [...]
published @ October 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I can’t believe a new feature from Google isn’t getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site.
Let me back up and give you a little [...]
published @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When I moved to the Bay Area last year, everything was new to me. I didn't know Los Altos from Los Gatos, good eateries in my neighborhood, or how to get to where I wanted to go. Whether you're moving to a new area, traveling to a new place, or simply exploring a new [...]
published @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As we promised, here's an update on the search patterns we observed during last night's presidential debate. While a few lucky citizens were able to ask the candidates questions directly, millions of others used Google to find their answers.Similar to last Thursday, people sought to understand the meaning of several words mentioned in the [...]
published @ October 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We've just posted the first three videos in the Google Technology Roundtable Series. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most significant achievements. We use a talk show format, where I lead a discussion on the technology.While the videos are intended for a reasonably technical audience, [...]
published @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If information is the currency of democracy, as Thomas Jefferson allegedly said, then during last Thursday's vice-presidential debate between Senator Biden and Governor Palin a lot of people used Google Search to get a bit wealthier, metaphorically speaking. Using Google Hot Trends, we can see some of the more interesting things that people were [...]
published @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch. While I was reading Om’s post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I’ll include it here, and then let’s meet at the bottom and compare notes.
Like many Google [...]
published @ October 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I tried to leave a comment on pixelrn.com but the problem with talking about hacked sites is that you often end up using language that gets flagged as spammy. Here’s what I tried to say but the WordPress installation over on pixelrn wouldn’t let me:
Hi Beth, I checked and it doesn’t look like you [...]
published @ October 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Did you know that millions of bloggers around the world write new posts each week? If you're like me, you probably read only a tiny fraction of these in Google Reader. What's everybody else writing about? Our Blog Search team thought this was an interesting enough question to look into. What we found was [...]
published @ October 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Now that we're a decade old, we figured we're long overdue for some spring cleaning. We started digging around our basement and found all kinds of junk: old Swedish fish, pigeon poop, Klingon translation books. Amazingly enough, hidden in a corner beneath Larry's and Sergey's original lab coats, we found a vintage search index [...]
published @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues [...]
published @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A few months ago we launched several new features for Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer. Since then, we've received many emails asking us when we plan to support all our new features in Firefox.Guess what: Starting today, you can download the latest version of Google Toolbar for Firefox, available in 29 languages. This new [...]
published @ September 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Now more than ever before, older Americans are logging on and surfing the web to stay in touch with family and friends, read websites and blogs, share photos, watch videos, and run online businesses. Like all Internet users, they're sometimes faced with unsafe activity online, such as viruses and malware, and they're looking for [...]
published @ September 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We love getting your feedback, and one of the themes that has cropped up in the Google Desktop Help group is that you want a lighter, faster product. We heard the message loud and clear and decided that the Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows release would be based entirely on performance.In true Google fashion, [...]
published @ September 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This series of posts has described Google's search quality efforts in areas such as ranking and search UI. Now I'll describe search evaluation. Simply put, search evaluation is the process of measuring the quality of our search results and our users' experience with search.Let me introduce myself. I'm Scott Huffman, an engineering director responsible for [...]