Google, BBC Make Mash-Ups

Google’s Search Gurus Spill Algorithm Beans

Ok, so the New York Times doesn’t exactly get Google’s top algorithm execs to tell us how the search engine calculates search results, but they do get fresh insight as to how Google decides to update it’s technology. The article includes interviews with Amit Singhal, Matt Cutts and Udi Manber. Insights include details of Google’s internal system for evaluating search queries, called Debug.

Palore Give Local Search Some Color

It looks like the Israel-based browser plug-in maker has taken some advice from last fall to heart, and made the information they can provide more easily accessible to users of local search.

Google Gets Former DOJ Lobbyist

Lobbyists work on behalf of all sorts of nasty causes - some people might not approve of oil companies and tobacco corporations, for example.  But lobbyists also work on behalf of charitable organizations and the like.  And now one more lobbyist works for Google.