Stars in search Every day, we work to improve the four key components of search: comprehensiveness, latency, user experience and relevance. Of these, relevance is dramatically enhanced by more personalized results. This week, we announced a new feature that makes it much easier to mark and rediscover your favorite content. Stars in search are just [...]
We’ve long believed that personalization makes search more relevant and fun. For nearly five years, we’ve been tailoring results with personalized search. Today we’re announcing a new feature in search that makes it easier for you to mark and rediscover your favorite web content — stars. With stars, you can simply click the star marker [...]
During the past two weeks, athletes from around the world competed at the Games in Vancouver. While these thousands strove for gold, millions around the world searched for 2010 Winter Olympics, 밴쿠버 동계올림픽 (Korean for “Vancouver Winter Olympics”), and Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno 2010 (Spanish for “2010 Olympic Winter Games”) using Google search. Now that [...]
Location has become an important part of the way we search. If you’re a foodie looking for restaurant details, food blogs or the closest farmer’s market, location can be vital to helping you find the right information. Starting today, we’ve added the ability to refine your searches with the “Nearby” tool in the Search Options panel. [...]
Refine your searches by location Location can tremendously aid the way you search, so we were pleased to add the ability to refine your searches by location to the Search Options panel. Say you’re big on the outdoors and want to find bike rental information, bicycling blogs or the closest sporting goods store. There’s a good [...]
This week, real-time search took center stage, along with a surging interest in the Winter Games in Vancouver. Real-time search in Russia and Japan Since the release of real-time search in December, we’ve seen that finding real-time content — often the only source of online information at the time — can be quite profound. For [...]
From enhancements in real-time search to Vancouver happenings at your fingertips, this week included a number of exciting search launches: Winter Games info in search results As the 2010 Winter Games kick off, we’ve made it easy for you to follow all of the action in Vancouver. Now, when you search for the latest results [...]
You might not know this, but there’s a hidden Labs widget in Gmail that lets you perform Google searches without leaving your e-mail interface. The news today is that it just got a whole slew of useful new features. Many Google() employees get to spend 20% of their time brainstorming and executing their own personal [...]
Hello again. I’ve been taking advantage of my 20% time to make some improvements in the Google Search lab I told you about last April. For starters, I’ve hooked up a bunch of Google’s most popular search features, including: Dictionary definitions: use a keyword like “define” in English and you’ll see the first definition of [...]
In addition to language improvements this week, we released several other new features: Haitian Creole translation We’ve now added Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen) translation to Google Translate, so that you can translate between Creole and 51 other languages, and also hear spoken versions of Creole translations. While this translation system is still evolving (when translating [...]