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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While saving you that unnecessary click, we make search that much faster. From: The Google Blog
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If I were a spit takin’ man, I’d do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn’t meanness on Motorola’s part although Reuters notes that this move could have something to [...]
The Oscars®: glitz, glamor, gossip, gold statuettes, much fanfare — and for many fans, Google search is increasingly a part of watching this live TV experience. Before and during the Academy Awards® broadcast in the U.S., we saw related queries on Google dominating the hot searches list on Google Trends. People searched for the TV [...]