Posts Tagged ‘change’

Google incorporating site speed in search rankings

Friday, April 9th, 2010

(I’m in the middle of traveling, but I know that a lot of people will be interested in the news that Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in determining search rankings . I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts.) The main thing I want to get across is: don’t panic.

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Google incorporating site speed in search rankings

Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Moustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches : Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters.

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Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking

Google earnings via YouTube webcast?

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Huh.

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Google earnings via YouTube webcast?