By JortK on March 28, 2011
Time is a precious commodity for most of us. To save you more precious seconds as you search, we’ve introduced Google Instant in Places View and redesigned the Google Search app for iPhone for faster, easier searching—whether you’re on your way out or already on the go. Instant for Places View As part of our [...]
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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 [...]
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By JortK on June 30, 2010
Speed is a common theme at Google—the notion of speed is baked into all of our products, from Google Chrome to web search. Often, we also simply develop features that help deliver answers fast. Whether by displaying the exact content you’re looking for at the top of your search results page or by optimizing the [...]
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By JortK on May 3, 2010
This week we announced a number of new search enhancements: Brand refinements in search results Sometimes when searching for product information on Google, you may not know some of the brand names relevant to your particular search. For example, if you’re taking on a new river-rafting hobby, it’s quite likely you don’t have a clue [...]
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By JortK on May 3, 2010
You’ve spilled coffee on your keyboard. The a, e, i, o, u, and r keys have stopped working. Now try to search Google for the nearest computer repair shop. The pain of typing on this broken keyboard is similar to what many people searching in non-English languages feel when trying to type today. Typing searches [...]
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By JortK on April 21, 2010
While saving you that unnecessary click, we make search that much faster. From: The Google Blog
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By JortK on April 21, 2010
Rich Snippets for recipes Rich Snippets are the brief annotations you see beneath search results that summarize what’s on a webpage. In addition to Rich Snippets for reviews, people, video and events, this week we unveiled a new Rich Snippets format for recipes. This means that when your search results include sites with recipe content, [...]
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By JortK on April 20, 2010
We’re always honored and often surprised by the many ways people can be inspired by Google. Take for example artist Ken Solomon, who has done a series of watercolors of Google Image Search results, like this one: Ken’s “Google Portrait – Warhol 2″ Just as societies preserve important documents and works of art, archivists and [...]
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By JortK on April 12, 2010
This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed. Here’s what’s happening this week in search: Site speed in web search ranking We made an announcement today about site speed and how it effects our search [...]
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By JortK on March 27, 2010
This week we’re highlighting a few recent internationalization projects, as well as some improvements to the way you conduct your searches. Here’s a summary. Improved Google Suggest interface & internationalization In 2008, we launched Google Suggest to help you formulate queries, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes. Since then, we’ve made a number of visual [...]
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