OneSpot Discussion: Introduction to Google Search Quality

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing says…

Google's Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation

After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia -…

GigaOM says…

The True Fiction of Microsoft Live Search

Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback, a new service that allows the company to attract customers who want to get paid for their search-commerce efforts. It is a nice gimmick and no slam dunk. My breakdown of the news announcement. Continue…

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing says…

Representing Your Business on the Social Web

The Web is getting more social, and the internet allows conversations between consumers and those who sell goods and services online on a scale that can be global in reach. The nature of that conversation has changed from the days of mass …

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO says…

A peek behind the curtain at Google

Udi Manber talks about search at Google in a recent post on the Google blog. If you’re interested in search or search engine optimization (SEO), the post is definitely worth a read. Udi discusses items from big (Google revamped how it compute…

Google Webmaster Central Blog says…

The Impact of User Feedback, Part 1

Written by Reid Yokoyama, Search QualityAbout a year ago, in response to user feedback, we created a paid links reporting form within Webmaster Tools. User feedback, through reporting paid links, webspam, or suggestions in our Webmaster Help …

The Open Road says…

Google's slow transformation into an open, transparent company

To some, Google has long been a champion of open source, hiring top open-source developers and contributing to a range of open-source projects, in addition to its Summer of Code. To others, Go…

Industry Standard Breaking News says…

Google opens up a little on its search algorithms

After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google Inc. is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded secret for two... read more

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO says…

Ben Gomes on Google’s user interface

This summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate …

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing says…

A Deeper Look At Google's Search Quality Efforts

Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each tea…

Search Engine Watch Blog says…

Google Opens Up About Search Quality, Kinda

Google has secrets. Despite their promotion of open source, open spectrum, open mobile, and overall openness, they are not very open about their algorithms. And who can blame them? They have a business to run. But today on the Official Googl…

Webware.com says…

Google sheds light, dimly, on search quality

Google has concluded it's been a little too secretive about the inner workings of its search engine. The company has deliberately stayed mum about the algorithm that decides what to put at the top of the search results list, in part becaus…

Search Engine Journal says…

5 Reasons Why Your Google Traffic Might Have Dropped

I daily browse tens of webmaster forums and one recent tendency I couldn’t help noticing is the astonishing number of threads talking about sudden decrease in Google search traffic. So here is a quick list of possible reasons this might have…

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim says…

Google’s Radically Transparent (Almost) About Its Search Algorithm

Over at the Official Google Blog, search quality tzar Udi Manber peels back the curtain covering Google’s coveted search engine technology, and provides us a peek of what’s been happening recently. It’s a long post, so here are the snippets t…

Technology Watch says…

Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms

After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded secret for two reasons: competition and to prevent abuse, said Udi M…

Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web says…

News of the Week 5/27/08

Blogging 2.0: When You No Longer Own the ConversationChanges have "caused serious strain for those living in Blogging 1.0, as they’ve seen their page views fluctuate, and as comments moved to third party sites, be they RSS readers, social net…

Search Engine Roundtable says…

Google Shares Information About Search Quality

Google's Udi Manber, VP of engineering, writes a very informative piece on the Official Google Blog about search quality at Google and the steps they're taking to make sure that Google's search quality is optimal. He explains that it has... …

Disruption Tour --- Run To Survive says…

The True Fiction of Microsoft Live Search

gigom.com Yesterday, I read a post on Google’s blog about their focus on improving search quality. Today, I read a press release from Microsoft in which it said its Live Search product will be used to give “cash back” to...

MarcPorcelli.com says…

Today In Online Marketing News – Friday May 23, 2008

Here are some of the articles that caught my attention today: Friday May 23, 2008. Microsoft Offers Rebates to Shoppers Using Its Search By Miguel Helft | The New York Times. “With its share of the Internet search market in steady decline …

Valleywag says…

Microsoft's desperate search [The Practice Effect]

In the age of desktop software, Microsoft had the luxury of taking years to copy competitors. In the age of Web software, it's next to impossible to catch up. As customers use websites, they generate data which helps the site's creator impro…

VNUNET.COM Latest updates says…

Google exposes search algorithm secrets

Guy Dixon, vnunet.com, Friday 23 May 2008 at 12:34:00 Search firm pledges 'a bit more' openness Google has pledged to adopt a more open approach with the formula for its hitherto fiercely guarded search algorithms. Udi Manber, Google's vice …

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs says…

Google Offers Peek At How It Controls Search Quality

Google's only goal: Improve user experience. How does it do that? According to Udi Manber, VP of engineering at Google, Search Quality, it is a heck of a lot of work. Google improves its search algorithms an average of nine times per week. H…

Joe Duck says…

Google search transparency? You call that transparency?

Google does a lot of wonderful things, including many that people do not give this amazing company nearly enough credit for doing. These include mail, calendar, and document applications as well as great free search. However Google transparen…

Social Media Today says…

Google Drinks a Fighting Problem

Google is screwed up. I say that not to be in any way disparaging of the world's most important search engine and online advertising platform (after all, this is a Blogger blog), but rather out of sin...

LinuxWorld News says…

Google opens up a little on its search algorithms

After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little.

ben barren - rss'ing down under says…

how many programmer hours has gone into your algorithms ?

For google, according to Udi Mander on their blog, its supposedly 1000+ man years invested in the page rank algorithm : "By some estimate, more than one thousand programmer/scientist years have gone directly into their development, and the ra…

ARN Daily says…

Google opens up a little on its search algorithms

After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little.

Geeking with Greg says…

Udi on Google search quality

Google VP Udi Manber offers a high level description of what goes into Google's relevance rank in his recent post, "Introduction to Google Search Quality".Some excerpts:Ranking is hard ... We need to be able to understand all web pages, writt…

Bloggin World says…

Are There Search Engine Optimization Lessons From Google’s Latest Info Release

It’s a long title, but then Google’s latest blog post by by Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality, is not exactly short either. However, after reading what he had to say I had a reread wondering what lessons it might hold for search engi…

WebGuild says…

Google on Search Quality: Through a Glass, Darkly

Udi Manber at Google suggests that they are working for better transparency in the rankings process but I recommend you do not hold your breath, because he's certainly right about this:For something that is used so often by so many people, su…

Web Analytics World says…

This Weeks Must Reads in Search Marketing

Regardless of the short week up here in Canada, due to Victoria Day, there was tonnes of great news stories floating around. Below are this week's must reads in search marketing.New Google Site Blog - Google Sites BlogSEW Experts: The Challen…

Internet News says…

Google's Search Quality

Google Offers Peek At How It Controls Search Quality by Eric Zeman, Information Week (May 21) Udi Manber, VP of engineering at Google, Search Quality, has begun a series of postings on the Google Search Blog about the Search Quality...

TechSheep says…

Introduction to Google Search Quality (Official Google Blog)

Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Search Quality — Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google …

Internet Marketing Blog by NoonanNight says…

Google Talks Search Quality

On Tuesday, Udi Maber (Google’s VP of Engineering) made a post on the Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Search Quality. While you have to take posts like this in stride (given that it is posted on their corporate blog), it still p…

SeoAlchemist says…

A Deeper Look At Google’s Search Quality Efforts

Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each tea…

SeoAlchemist says…

Representing Your Business on the Social Web

The Web is getting more social, and the internet allows conversations between consumers and those who sell goods and services online on a scale that can be global in reach. The nature of that conversation has changed from the days of mass m…

SeoAlchemist says…

A Deeper Look At Google’s Search Quality Efforts

Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each tea…

WebProNews Feed says…

Google Opens A Smidgen On Search Quality

Competitive concerns and abusive webmasters prevent Google from delving deeper into the secrets behind its search. read more

Дао-то на SEO says…

Introduction to Google Search Quality

Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decid…

Search Engine Marketing Blog by ineedhits says…

Google Shares Secrets of their Search Engine

Google has let us in on the inner working of its search engine in a recent blog post. Understandably, Google has to be quite secretive about the "Google crown jewels" - the ranking algorithms. This is due to not wanting competitors steali…

Joining Dots: Blog says…

Links last week - 080525

The following is a selection of links collected from 19th to 25th May 2008, shared via Google Reader, added to FriendFeed or highlighted on Twitter. They have been organised by Library category: Systems and the elements - People, Information …

Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog says…

SEO Headlines

Google Talks Generically About Search Quality Search marketers were treated to an Introduction to Google Search Quality by Udi Manber on the Official Google Blog yesterday afternoon that offered a glimpse into the Google's search technology. …

SeoAlchemist says…

Representing Your Business on the Social Web

The Web is getting more social, and the internet allows conversations between consumers and those who sell goods and services online on a scale that can be global in reach. The nature of that conversation has changed from the days of mass m…

*michael parekh on IT* says…

ON PONDERING GOOGLE SEARCH

STOP TO SMELL A ROSE Use something several times a day, everyday for half a decade or more, and you can't but help take it a bit for granted. I'm talking here about Google Search, which so many of us have become so addicted to in living our d…

Search Engine Showdown Blog says…

Google Search Focus

Sometimes I find the Google blog posts to be long winded, high on hype, and low on information value. Yesterday's post about Google Search Quality started out in a similar vein, but it quickly improved and contains a number of interesting poi…

Traffick says…

Microsoft-Google Price War Already Insane-o

A few days ago when I posted about the "coming war of free," I really had no idea the competition could get as heated as Microsoft not just giving away search by monetizing less, but giving away search *ads* by passing pretty much all the ad …

Apogee Weblog says…

Automatic Matching is a Dumb Idea for Google AdWords

Automatic matching is a dumb idea. I try to be polite, but with all the existing flaws of expanded matching, why would Google push ahead with an even more aggressive matching algorithm? So, if you see this message in your Google AdWords acc…

Дао-то на SEO says…

Google Search Quality

The most famous part of our ranking algorithm is PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who founded Google. PageRank is still in use today, but it is now a part of a much larger system. Other parts include language mo…

Webbsnack says…

Mekanisk verkstad

NyTeknik fortsätter sin artikelserie om sökmotoroptimering. Bland annat uppmärksammar tidningen hur bloggare som Nikke Lindqvist placerade sig bättre än NyTeknik på orden “hamna i topp hos Google“. Så här ser för övrigt sökresultatet ut just …

gadgetforlife.info says…

A (very brief) peek inside Google’s “black box”

Google understands that it has a big transparency problem. That much is clear from a blog posting today by Udi Manber, the engineer in charge of its search quality. The problem is, there is very little the company can do about it. The problem…

google.dirson.com says…

Cómo funciona el buscador web de Google: la compañía aporta un poco más de información

El buscador web de Google es la joya de la corona de la compañía. Es lo que le proporciona el mayor porcentaje de sus multimillonarios ingresos y, sobre todo, su credibilidad como marca. Por ello, en muy raras ocasiones se hacen comentarios s…

gadgetforlife.info says…

A (very brief) peak inside Google’s “black box”

Google understands that it has a big transparency problem. That much is clear from a blog posting today by Udi Manber, the engineer in charge of its search quality. The problem is, there is very little the company can do about it. The problem…

The Zedomax Network - Profiling Web 2.0 Companies at the Speed of Technology and Tools for Bloggers. says…

Google on Google Search Quality

Google is changing their algorithm constantly and their algorithm will never be accessible fully by the public to protect against competition and abusers. The best thing to do for you as a webmaster? Create great content and focus only on …

BPWrap says…

Google Search Quality Lifts The Veil - A Little

Google Search Confesses It Should Open Up More Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality, acknowledges in the Official Google Blog that Google Search Quality is overly secretive. Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the…

Aktualności z vortalu dobreprogramy.pl says…

Google powie więcej o sobie

Dział Search Quality odpowiedzialny w Google za wyszukiwarkę rozpoczął serię wpisów na korporacyjnym blogu mających za zadanie uchylić rąbka tajemnicy dotyczącej zasad jej działania.Kilkaset milionów razy dziennie wyszukiwarka Google odpowiad…

Site Toolkit says…

Google’s slow transformation into an open, transparent company

To some, Google has long been a champion of open source, hiring top open-source developers and contributing to a range of open-source projects, in addition to its Summer of Code. To others, Google has been the worst enemy of open source, bum…

Denken Über says…

Descubriendo la tecnología de Google

Google tiene en el Search Quality Team una caja negra infranqueable a la que todo SEO querría tener acceso y, tal vez por el secretismo rodeándolos, están empezando a abrir un poco al mundo que pasa ahí dentro en una serie de posts que les re…

Computerworld UK's Roundup says…

Google opens up a little on its search algorithms

After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little.

VNUNet News says…

Google dévoile les secrets de ses algorithmes de recherche

Le moteur s'engage sur une plus large transparence sur ses algorithmes.

PCM Nieuws says…

Google minder geheimzinnig over zoekalgoritme

Volgens Google is de geheimzinnigheid rondom zijn zoekalgoritme nodig om de concurrentie voor te blijven. De zoekgigant realiseert zich dat deze geheimzinnigheid ervoor zorgt dat gebruikers en organisaties wantrouwig worden.

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog says…

Googling

Often when people talk about Google it is as if it is something stable. But things are always moving on. There is an interesting, if somewhat high-level, overview of search quality by Udi Manber on the Google Blog which talks some of the ways…

Icerocket blog search: tag:marketing says…

Heart of Google

" The most famous part of our ranking algorithm is PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who founded Google. PageRank is still in use today, but it is now a part of a much larger system. Other parts include language …

Internetmarketing-News.de says…

TaT: Microsoft Cashback, …

Nicht wirklich viel los derzeit … Microsoft Cashback - Barry hat das Programm einmal mit dem Kauf eines Regenschirms durchgespielt. Mich persönlich können solche Programme nicht begeistern und ob es MSN nun zu einem Schwung neuer Nutzer verh…

Search Marketing Blog from Cincinnati, Ohio says…

Google Search Quality Insights from Udi Manber

Another solid post from Udi Manber, VP of engineering at Google in charge of Search Quality: Introduction to Google Search Quality I wanted to pull an important excerpt out from the post: "There are really no standards for how to convey i…

Travolution Blog says…

Ever wondered how Google does its thing?

You can get some idea in a post by Udi Manber, vice president for engineering at Google Search Quality.Manber goes into a lot of detail as to how it ranks web pages against search queries.Works for us, thank you very much, given how well we a…

Sunbelt Blog says…

The problem with Live

So now Microsoft is going to pay for results. This is the kind of strategy I would figure coming out of Ask.com (or the old iWon). Not from Microsoft. And it won’t work in the long run. People search to find things. If they’re not finding wha…

pcpartfinder says…

Google's slow transformation into an open, transparent company

To some, Google has long been a champion of open source, hiring top open-source developers and contributing to a range of open-source projects, in addition to its Summer of Code . To others, Google has been the worst enemy of open source, bum…

PC Authority says…

Google exposes search algorithm secrets

Well, sort of. The search firm pledges 'a bit more' openness, though the search algorithms are still the crown jewels.

AlterSlash says…

The Rise of Geekdom

Thomas Jefferson : Geek. Made all sorts of inventions at Monticello Westinghouse : Geek.

AlterSlash says…

Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing?

…you want your data to be secure? Disconnect it from the net. given the vast amount of digital leakage and other human errors, who are you really putting trust in?

AlterSlash says…

SSD Prices On Parity With High-End HDD By 2011

If we reflect back on the floppy disks days, we see that it was not only cost, but density, that killed the floppy oh so many years ago. A floppy was no longer useful for installing apps.

theWHIR.com Blogs - Web Hosting Blogs says…

Google Search Ranking Secrets Revealed

Wouldn't it be great to understand exactly how Google decides to rank websites? And wouldn't it be even better if the information on Google search rankings came from a true ''insider'' at Google? Well if the Google blog is to be believed, the…

TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL says…

Weekly Ten (05-26-2008)

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Linux May Power New Nokia PhonesThe world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the …

Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com says…

Google To Explain Search Rankings

Quite simply, ranking on search engines is crucial for so many businesses and a even slight change in the way search engines rank results can cripple a business. Having said that, it seems Google is one of the more active search engines in te…

iTWire - Latest Headlines says…

Google opens search algorithm kimono secrets - just a little

Google’s notorious secrecy over its ever evolving search algorithms are legendary for keeping competitors in the dark over Google’s success, and for keeping webmasters guessing on how to get the best ranking....

TagliaBlog says…

I potenziali clienti, come prendono l’aggiornamento delle SERP?

Internet è in costante evoluzione, i motori di ricerca lo sono ancora di più. Di qualche giorno fa una di quelle notizie che definisco Open Your Mind, dove a parlare è addirittura un Search Quality Manager di Google il quale rimette il dito …

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