By JortK on February 28, 2011
Posted in Movies | Tagged superman
By JortK on February 28, 2011
Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day [...]
Posted in google | Tagged chrome, content, farm, google
By JortK on February 28, 2011
Many Gmail power users have elaborate label systems to help organize their mail — some help file and retrieve mail, others help manage their attention. We created the “Hide read labels” and “Hide Labels from Subjects” labs to help people manage their ever-growing lists of labels. Given the popularity and usefulness of these labs, we’ve [...]
Posted in google | Tagged gmail, google, labels, recipe, search
By JortK on February 24, 2011
Google Speech technology Invest in news New document formats in Gmail
Posted in google | Tagged input, nexus, voice
By JortK on February 24, 2011
It’s not just the Android team that is exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy. In recent years, advertising technology has had its own “Big Bang”: a rapid onset of incredible growth and expansion in the display advertising universe. Display advertising is one of our big focus areas. Better display advertising helps to fund the [...]
Posted in google | Tagged advertising, voice
By JortK on February 22, 2011
Cool Pokeball wallpaper by simpledesktops.com
Posted in Pictures | Tagged pokeball, wallpaper
By JortK on February 21, 2011
Cross posted from the Google Docs blog The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people every day to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online. Not only is viewing files in your browser far more secure than downloading and opening them locally, but it also saves time and doesn’t clutter [...]
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By JortK on February 17, 2011
Today we’re doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. That’s [...]
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By JortK on February 15, 2011
(Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog) We’ve been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we’re exploring is explicit feedback from users. To that end, today we’re launching an early, experimental Chrome extension so people can block sites from their web search results. [...]
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By JortK on February 14, 2011
(Cross-posted from the Google Blog) Has anyone you know ever lost control of an email account and inadvertently sent spam—or worse—to their friends and family? There are plenty of examples (like the classic “Mugged in London” scam) that demonstrate why it’s important to take steps to help secure your activities online. Your Gmail account, your [...]
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