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.
SMX: Danny Sullivan Strips For Matt Cutts
The Search Marketing Expo opened in Seattle with a Q&A session with Google’s Matt Cutts; it seems Matt came back from his vacation with mischief on his mind.
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.
Keeping Your “Classic” Version – A Necessity?
Launching a site quickly around an idea to claim a first mover advantage is rapidly becoming a mantra for new Web 2.0 startup sites.
Google Reaches Into RSS & Social Network Ads
In 2005 JupiterResearch noted that less than 10 percent of RSS feeds had advertising in them, and no major advertisers were using feeds as part of their marketing strategies.
How the times have changed.
Google is acquiring Feedburner and sees it as a way for its base of hundreds of thousands of advertisers to reach some of the most active groups of Web users — social network members who use mini-applications called widgets or the growing audience surfing the Internet over mobile phones, executives said.
Judge Won’t Dismiss Second Life Land Grab Case
Warning: The lawyers involved with this topic will take your mind and twist it until it bursts forth with cerebral irreconcilability. Be assured, this is real and, probably, legal. Just hit the reset button on your synapses and you should be fine.
Google Invests In Israeli R&D Center
Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation. You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there. Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world – Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.
Safety Drives Teen Mobile Growth
The growth of tween (children ages eight to 12) and teen cell phone subscribers will outpace that of the overall U.S. population according to a new report from Jupiter Research, "Mobile Subscriber Acquisition: Marketing to Parents, Teens, and Tweens."
Adobe Spins Up LiveCycle ES
The financial and government sectors drove plenty of the work performed in preparing LiveCycle ES for its debut in the enterprise market.