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Matt Cutts from the Search quality team explains how Google Social Search works.

Duration : 0:4:48

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Technorati Tags: google, Search, social

Ian M in the UK asks:

“Are you ever going to do “weather reports” like Yahoo! does for algorithm updates? Simply a confirmation that one has happened would please many SEOs, as clients might think they’ve been penalised. Your algo update reports years ago were wonderful.”

This video is part of a “Grab Bag” series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We’re not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related Search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en

Duration : 0:2:12

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Technorati Tags: algorithm, google

This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and Search.

What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?

This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing speed: through its popular search engine, through Google Earth, with which users can find any kind of information based on geography, and through Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes complete libraries.

Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world’s information, including personal information about its users?

This documentary takes a look into the world of Google, in the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and in its London offices. We see –among others- Vint Cerf, named ‘the father’ of the Internet who explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. What is his view on the development of the Internet, and on the role Google plays in today’s world?

With its motto ‘Don’t be evil’, Google seems to have the best intentions. But there are also claims that Google is slowly turning into Big Brother, keeping track of its users and continuously making decisions about the Information it provides to an ever faster growing number of users.

Will Google turn out to be a new Library of Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all useful information to anyone? Or is it turning into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?

Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen

VPRO Backlight 2006

Duration : 0:47:7

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Technorati Tags: big, brother, cerf, digitize, google, Information, internet, monopoly, Privacy, Search, silicon, valley

Google’s Search options let you slice and dice your search results, explore your search and generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need.

Learn more: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=142143

Duration : 0:2:5

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Technorati Tags: features, google, Search, timeline, web, wheel, wonder

Eoghan Nolan introducing his talk at the Open Innovation Conference (http://tinyurl.com/yf7um62), Belfast, March 2010 with some statistics on the scale of Information Search.

Duration : 0:4:12

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Technorati Tags: Belfast, Eoghan Nolan, google, information management, information retrieval, open innovation, Search

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This video shows various quick tricks on how to utilize Google to the fullest. There are many Search features that can enhance your experience online.

Use Google as your:
- Online Dictionary with define:word
- calculator for formulas and conversions
- World Time
- Local Movie Showtimes
- Search for Music files using:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “title here”
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(this is not the.EASTER.EGG! sorry)

Duration : 0:6:38

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Technorati Tags: calculator, features, flights, google, hacks, mp3, pcwizkid, Search, time, tips, tricks

An American finds love in Paris. Watch more Search Stories by Google at http://youtube.com/searchstories

Search On.

Duration : 0:0:53

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Technorati Tags: Ad, google, Google Homepage, Google Love Story, Google Search Stories, Mignon, Paris, Search On, Study abroad, Super Bowl Commercial, TV

Google Tech Talk
December 4, 2009

ABSTRACT

Presented by Manuel Pérez-Quiñones.

Personal Information Management (PIM) practices are the behaviors that we follow when we organize our information. This often includes emails, documents, bookmarks, pictures, etc. Research in PIM has identified a common set of activities that require support: encountering information, organizing Information, filing/archiving, and reusing information. Different tools must provide different kinds of support for each one of these activities.

PIM practices become easier if the organization provides some infrastructure to alleviate the difficulty of these activities. But a larger value is that the organization can leverage these personal practices to improve the effectiveness of others and to capture that elusive corporate knowledge in an easy way.

In this talk, I will describe previous work in PIM and highlight how some of the PIM practices can be supported and leveraged from the organization point of view.

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones is Associate Dean and Director of the Office for Graduate Recruiting and Diversity Initiatives at the Graduate School, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. Pérez-Quiñones holds a DSc in Computer Science from The George Washington University. His research interests include human-computer interaction, personal information management, user interface software, digital government, and educational uses of computers. He is a member of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, where he co-directs the national program Collaborative ReSearch Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Science and Engineering. He serves on the editorial board for ACM’s Transactions on Computing Education journal. For 2008-2010 has been included in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor program.

About Perspectivas Speaker Series: Perspectivas is a speaker series aimed to empower and inspire individuals by providing ‘mentoring at scale’. Latino scientists and professionals share their perspectives on careers, work-life balance, and how they’ve achieved personal success.

Duration : 0:56:31

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Technorati Tags: google, HCI, Information, Management, talk, tech

Google Tech Talks
January 7, 2009

ABSTRACT

We’ve become complacent about relevance. The overwhelming success of web search engines has lulled even information retrieval (IR) researchers to expect only incremental improvements in relevance in the near future. And beyond web search, there are still broad search problems where relevance still feels hopelessly like the pre-Google web.

But even some of the most basic IR questions about relevance are unresolved. We take for granted the very idea that a computer can determine which documents are relevant to a person’s needs. And we still rely on two-word queries (on average) to communicate a user’s information need. But this approach is a contrivance; in reality, we need to think of information-seeking as a problem of optimizing the communication between people and machines.

We can do better. In fact, there are a variety of ongoing efforts to do so, often under the banners of “interactive information retrieval”, “exploratory Search“, and “human computer information retrieval”. In this talk, I’ll discuss these initiatives and how they are helping to move “relevance” beyond today’s outdated assumptions.

Speaker: Daniel Tunkelang
Daniel Tunkelang is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Endeca, a leading provider of enterprise information access solutions. He leads Endeca’s efforts to develop features and capabilities that emphasize user interaction. Daniel has spearheaded the annual Workshops on Human Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) and is organizing the Industry Track for SIGIR ‘09. Daniel also publishes The Noisy Channel, a widely read and cited blog that focuses on how people interact with information.

Daniel holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a minor in psychology. He completed a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University for his work on Information visualization. His work previous to Endeca includes stints at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and AT Labs.

Duration : 1:7:46

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Technorati Tags: Education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks

Byron Gordon, SEO-PR, interviews Peter Maxmin, Bing’s Director of Online Search of the UK, European and African markets, about Bings insights into search patterns and behaviors of users in that part of the globe. Although users said they were pleased with search, the data shows, however, that only one in four queries were successful. People are re-querying or abandoning their initial search attempts as they are not getting to the result they want Searching the first time and Bing sees this as an opportunity to provide better search results. Users are also performing tasks and sessions, not just individual querying, according to Peter, and searchers are trying to identify and buy products. As a result, half of those queries studied by Bing are over 30 minutes in length as people try and perform tasks. Peter says search engines were not traditionally set-up to perform these types of queries and Bing wants to move forward in this direction and not just focus on featuring the top ten blue links. Peter then goes on to describe Bings introduction of visual search. Peter concludes that Bing can help users find things faster than using Google and find Information that is more relevant to their search.

Duration : 0:4:17

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Technorati Tags: bing, data, google, Information, online information, online search, Peter Maxmin, Search, search query, ses London, ses London 2010, Sport Relief