Google: "As part of our continued effort to be more transparent about how search works, we're publishing video footage from our internal weekly search meeting: "Quality Launch Review." We hold the meeting almost every Thursday to discuss possible algorithmic improvements and make decisions about what to launch. This video is from the meeting that happened on December 1st, 2011, and includes the entire uncut discussion of a real algorithmic improvement to our spell correction system. The language can be technical, so we've included annotations to provide some context for the discussion (and have a little fun!)."
Inside Google: Here's The Weekly Meeting Where Engineers Fix Search (GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
Google just posted a video of the internal weekly meeting where its engineers get together to figure out how to improve search quality. It happens every Thursday, and brings in employees from around the globe via teleconferencing.
Google, Microsoft Search Engines Retained Share in February: comScore
eWeek
Google and Microsoft's respective shares of the US search market remained relatively unchanged in February, according to new estimates from comScore. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo largely retained their respective shares of the US search market in ...
Despite Backlash, Google's 'Search Plus Your World' Hasn't Impacted Google's ...
Fox Business
ComScore has released its search data for February 2012, and Google continues to lead, gaining 0.2 percentage points over the previous month, up to 66.4% in February from 66.2% in January. Microsoft sites, which includes its Bing search engine, ...
Google to Announce Venture With Belgian Museum
New York Times
The European Commission, which is the executive branch of the European Union, is scrutinizing the dominance of Google's search engine. National regulators are looking into changes in the company's privacy policy. Cultural figures and politicians have ...
Germany Wants Search Engines, Aggregators to Pay Publishers
PCWorld
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News The ruling German coalition has agreed to start work on a law that will require Google and other search engines as well as content aggregators to pay publishers and journalists for reproducing even short snippets of articles ...
comScore: Google, Bing gain search share as Yahoo dips
ZDNet (blog)
By Zack Whittaker | March 12, 2012, 6:10am PDT Summary: comScore's latest market share statistics show that Google remains top dog in search. While Bing gains a fraction, it loses out toGoogle in third-party searches. comScore's latest findings show ...
Google Remains King in Searches, Hearts and Minds
CIO
The bad press Google received about changes in its privacy policy hasn't hurt the search giant's popularity among Net ferrets, according to reports released Friday by comScore and the Pew Internet and American Life Project. By John P. Mello Jr. The bad ...
Yahoo Search Share Sinks, Google, Bing Rise in February 2012
Search Engine Watch
by Danny Goodwin, March 12, 2012 Comments Yahoo's slice of the US search engine market continued to evaporate in February reaching a new low, according to comScore's latest figures.Google and Bing both saw gains, with Google nearly matching its ...
SMX Advanced Search Marketing Conference Adds 6 In-depth Workshops for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
SMX Advanced will feature six workshops hosted by leading experts in internet and search enginemarketing. Topics include search engine optimization (SEO), Google AdWords, internationalsearch, Facebook marketing, SEO for in-house marketers and local ...
Google's Latest Easter Egg: Fun for Numeral Nerds
PCWorld (blog)
By Jeff Bertolucci, PCWorld Mar 11, 2012 1:39 PM Yep, Google's up to its old tricks and has unleashed a trio of Easter eggs that are sure to thrill fans of numeral systems. Here's how to find it: Go to Google and search for either "binary," ...
Google Isn't 'Leveraging Its Dominance,' It's Fighting To Avoid Obsolescence
Forbes
If regulators force Google to stop running, like Kodak, the market will simply pass it by. Image via Wikipedia Six months may not seem a great deal of time in the general business world, but in the Internet space it's a lifetime as new websites, ...
Google's new privacy policy might affect students
MSU State News
Under the policy, Google can track and share data about users across its various applications and platforms, such as Gmail and Google searches, to provide better search results and more accurate advertisements. MSU's Google Apps suite operates under ...
An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
Search Engine Land
How does Google create its search algorithms, its recipes for making the listings andsearch results you get? For the first time, the general public gets a glimpse into the decision making process, through a video that Google has posted of one of its ...
Search Engine Land
Google Search Quality Meeting Uncut [Video]
WebProNews
By Chris Crum · 1 min ago · Leave a Comment Google tweeted out a link to a video of some footage from one of its search quality meetings. The company says this is part of its efforts to be more transparent how how its search engine works.
Google Experiment Brings Advertising Legends Into the Digital Age
PC Magazine
By Adario Strange Although many consumers look to Google for its search and email tools, the truth is that the company's primary business is advertising. Google recently decided to shake up the foundations of that industry by introducing a combination ...
Google faces more bad news on personalised search
Vertical Leap News (press release)
Personalised search has come under more fire, with 73 per cent of users claiming they are not OK with it, theeword.co.uk reports. Personalised search results, such as those witnessed with Google's Search Plus Your World and updated privacy settings, ...
Is Google Too Big to 'Not Do Evil?'
AllAfrica.com
The Google search engine was powerful and it was free. In fact, one of my friends joked that if you wanted to search Microsoft website for anything, you were better off using Google Search, rather than the Bing search engine developed by Microsoft.
Google inches up, Yahoo inches down
CNET (blog)
by Lance Whitney March 12, 2012 5:26 AM PDT Follow @lancewhit Yahoo's share of the US search engine market continued to slip last month as Google upped its lead. It was business as usual for the US search engine market in February.
Bing Launches Search Quality Insights
Search Newz
Close on the heels of Google "Search Quality Highlights" series launched in December 2011, Binghas now come up with their own "Search Quality Insights" series. This was announced by Bing as a way to provide users with details on the working process of ...
Google dominates US search realm despite controversial privacy changes
ComputerworldUK
By Brad Reed | Network World US | Published 15:51, 12 March 12 Google has cemented its position as the leading search engine in the US despite its controversial new privacy policy. According the latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life ...
Google Facing Big-Time Elliott Wave Wipeout
Forbes
If I tell you that Google (NASDAQ : GOOG) stock is likely to lose 25% of its value, you may think that I haven't heard the news. Google claimed a 66.4% share of the USsearch market in February and the company might be ready to take on Amazon.com with ...
Forbes
Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It's Doing
Search Engine Land
Yet the majority gave an unequivocal thumbs down to search personalization (and behavioral targeting). This isn't necessarily a contradiction or paradox in the abstract, but it is when you consider that the most popular search engine is moving ...
Bing Just As Good As Google, Says Bing
WebProNews
By Shaylin Clark · 1 min ago · Leave a Comment After spending several years playing catch-up toGoogle, Microsoft's Bing search engine is finally reaching a point where it is just as good as its rival, according to Microsoft's Harry Shum.
Google+ and the Long Game
TechNewsWorld
But there's still plenty of value Google can wring from its social network and plenty of places in which it can grow, according to Google VP Vic Gundotra. Google+, he said, is a social layer that goes on top of everything else Google does, ...
Google increases search share
Washington Business Journal
Google Inc. increased its share of the US Internet search market, accounting for 66.4 percent of all explicit core searches in February, up from 66.2 percent in January, according to Reston-based comScore Inc. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft Corp.
Siri Hampers Google's Mobile Search Efforts
ITProPortal
Google has long been the epitome of a popular and successful search facility, but ever since the launch of Apple's voice recognition software, Siri, experts have been observing a rapid decline in the use of Mountain View's acclaimed search engine.
ITProPortal
The Simon Group Achieves Google Adwords Certified Partner Status
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
The company's profile is available in the Google Partner Search. The Simon Group has maintained individual qualification in the Google AdWords Certification Program since April 2011, specializing inGoogle advertising fundamentals, including campaign ...
Google, Apple & Facebook Want to Define You. Will You Let Them?
Daily Deal Media
It shares some guilt with Google search, and other products from the world's leading IT companies like Apple. As people, we're becoming chained to what these companies want us to consume, both in terms of information and products.
Google reportedly scaling back books digitisation project - 12 Mar 2012
Knowledgespeak
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, as observed by librarians involved with the digitisation project. However, it remains unclear what this would mean for the ...
3 Ways Google Social Search Should Change Your Marketing ...
By Sarah Lokitis
Google Social Search for Marketers: make your search results more relevant and promote your Google+ Business Page by leveraging Google's Search Plus Your World.
Social Media Examiner
Despite Backlash, Google's “Search Plus Your World” Hasn't ...
By Sarah Perez
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TechCrunch
Google's Panda 3.3 Update and Many Other Changes
By koalaweb
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Google 'Search plus Your … | THE SOCIAL CMO
By TheSocialCMO
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Inside a Google Meeting of Search Engineers [VIDEO]
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After watching just two minutes I am intrigued to say the least since sitting in on a meeting of Google search engineers is not something I am likely (or most of us for that matter) to be privy to. Even if you don't listen to what folks are saying you ...
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Inside Google: Here's The Weekly Meeting Where Engineers Fix ...
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About a year ago, a set of search quality changes known as "Panda" totally changed how sites were ranked, and some sites lost a ton of Web traffic as a result. More recently, Google decided to highlight information from its new social network, ...
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Google's search algorithm changes, 1998-2012 | Techi.com
By Scarlett Madison
It can be argued that the Google search algorithm is the most used form of mathematical engineering in history. With billions of searches performed daily,
Techi.com
Google publishes uncut video of weekly search quality meeting ...
By Jordan Kahn
Google today decided to publish uncut video from its search quality meeting where the company discusses and makes decisions regarding changes to the algorithm and infrastructure used forGoogle search. This is the first time Google has ...
9to5Google
Google Search Results With Facebook Likes, Tweets & Google+ ...
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Google With Social Stats is a pretty slick tool that lets you view Google search results, along with social stats such as Tweets, Facebook likes and Google plus.
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Despite some serious marketing of Microsoft's Bing search engine, Google continues to hold onto its overwhelming lead in the search market, according to the digital measurement service, comScore. We use Google first nearly always, but we ...
TechJournal South
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DayRiffer
12 Steps to Fixing Your Website & Preventing a Google Penalty ...
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Fixing a Google Penalty. If you own or manage a website, then you know that your site's rank onsearch engine results pages (SERPs) is critical to your success. What you may not know is the damage a Google penalty can wreck on your site. Not familiar with Google ... If there has been a recent update, such Google Panda, you want to give it a bit of time to see if your site's rank is reestablished. Once you have ruled out ... 10. Monitor Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is the basic ...
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Higher Education Marketing
Google is globally switching its search to HTTPS by default - The H ...
In future, all logged-in visitors to the search engine will have their traffic encrypted by default. The change brings improved security and privacy to users ...
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Those that don t know, google sniping is a method of affiliate sniper sites that rank in the searchand they rank for some seriously high traffic keywords. Gsniper ...
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At Google, advertising is crowding out search results | Ed Bott
For years, Google was famous for its clean, uncluttered layout and its excellent search algorithms. Those days are long gone. Google gets 96% of its annual ...
www.edbott.com/.../at-google-advertising-is-crowding-out-sea...
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