I’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like. For starters, here’s what Google announced about Chrome OS back in July. At that time, Google called out “speed, simplicity and security” as the key ideas behind Chrome OS. Google [...] Full story...
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.
I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.
Google just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes.
If you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this, but I recently recreated my “State of the Index” talk from PubCon in November 2009.
Huh. This looks new. I headed over to investor.google.com to listen to the Google earnings call. Normally the webcast uses Windows Media Player or Real Player, but this time it looks like the earnings call is being hosted on a YouTube channel: http://www.
Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog.
Okay, we’re starting to release new webmaster videos. Normally you could follow me on Twitter to find out about each new video, but I’m on a Twitter diet until the end of January.
Lots of people are thinking about ways to help Haiti after their horrible 7.0 earthquake.
Google recently introduced a page with a large number of resources for the Haiti earthquake, including the ability to donate money.
This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source.
Quick summary: I’m giving up Twitter for 30 days. I normally tweet about the webmaster videos that we make.