Deeper understanding with Metaweb
published @ July 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Over time we’ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn’t merely words—it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities can help us deliver relevant information more quickly. Today, we’ve acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of things [...]
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The most World Cup-crazy countries
published @ July 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last weekend, Spain won the 2010 World Cup. For the month leading up to the final, Googlers joined the world in cheering for their favorite teams. Around our campus, games were watched on computer screens and on cafe video screens. Code went unwritten. Emails went unanswered.Throughout the world, real life also slowed during World [...]
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World Cup search trends: the final countdown
published @ July 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
In the past two weeks of World Cup action, 16 teams have been narrowed down to just two—Spain and the Netherlands—who will face off in the World Cup final tomorrow. For both countries, there are high stakes: not only are the two sides contending for the title of best football team in the world, [...]
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Finding soccer stats with the Google Search Appliance
published @ July 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
For the past few weeks, many football fans have been living and breathing just one thing: the World Cup. When they’re not watching on the matches, many people have flocked to FIFA.com, the source for the latest info on players, standings and scores.With all these people looking for the latest and greatest on their [...]
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Taking off with ITA
published @ July 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Today, almost half of all airline tickets are sold online. But for many people, finding the right flight at the best price is a frustrating experience; pricing and availability change constantly, and even a simple two city itinerary involves literally thousands of different options. We’d like to make that search much easier, which is [...]
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An update on China
published @ June 29, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.We [...]
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The search for 16
published @ June 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet
With the group round of the World Cup coming to a close and the round of 16 under way, it’s the perfect time to see what’s piqued searchers’ interest since our pre-tournament search trends kick-off.Understandably, searches for [world cup standings] climbed steadily during the first week of play as fans around the globe watched [...]
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YouTube wins case against Viacom
published @ June 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like [...]
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Vote for the international “I love football” Doodle 4 Google winner
published @ June 22, 2010 # No Comment Yet
In April, we invited young artists in 17 countries to create a Google doodle based on the theme “I love football.” Since then, more than 35,000 children in Australia, Germany, Ghana, South Korea, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Kenya, UAE and Israel have [...]
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A Father’s Day dedication
published @ June 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
This is part of our summer series of new Search Stories. Look for the label Search Stories and subscribe to the series. -Ed.Our latest Search Story, Father and Daughter, is a tribute to all the wonderful relationships dads have with their daughters. While working on the story we came across a comment posted to [...]
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Searching for football connections
published @ June 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
In a previous post, we talked about popular World Cup search queries. It turns out that people who search for one player frequently follow that immediately with a query for another player. In this post, we explore these timely connections between queries. Below, a thick line connects Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi because a [...]
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Summer is here, and so is Google Commerce Search 2.0
published @ June 18, 2010 # No Comment Yet
School is out for the summer, and that means it’s time for some swimsuit shopping, travel purchases and—before we know it—buying back-to-school supplies.To help retail sites get ready for the summer shopping season, today we’re launching Google Commerce Search 2.0 for retailers in the United States and United Kingdom. The new version of Google [...]
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The power of human rights video
published @ June 12, 2010 # No Comment Yet
A year ago this weekend, Tehran erupted in protest at the disputed results of Iran’s tenth presidential election. In the severe government crackdown that followed, documented on cameras and uploaded by citizens to YouTube, no moment has been seen more than the death of Neda Agha Soltan, a young musician whose brutal killing by [...]
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Kicking around search trends for the World Cup
published @ June 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
If you’re a certain type of sports fan, you’ve been waiting four years to get to June 11, 2010—the kick-off of the World Cup and 30 days of football (soccer to some of us) madness, with 64 matches played by 32 teams from around the world.As we’ve done before, we took a look at [...]
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The art of a homepage
published @ June 10, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last week, we announced a new feature that lets you add a favorite photo or image to the background of your Google.com homepage.To provide you with an extra bit of inspiration, we‘ve collaborated with several well-known artists, sculptors and photographers to create a gallery of background images you can use to personalize your Google [...]
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