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Search quality, continued

A few weeks back Udi Manber introduced the search quality group, and the previous posts in this series talked about the ranking of documents. While the ranking of web documents forms the core of what makes search at Google work so well, your search experience consists of much more than that.

How Technology Is Costing Companies Billions


This is the story of a very expensive customer loyalty program that worked flawlessly for two decades only to be derailed by several remarkable misuses of...
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Search experiments, large and small


In my previous post, I described the components of your web search experience and the principles behind creating a great search experience. There are complex algorithms underlying simple features such as spelling correction and the two line snippets...
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Redesign Your Website? Check these Simple Tips


There's no secret sauce and this site redesign was more about implementing the various things I have learned in the last 5 years. These tips will help people who are planning to launch a new website or getting a fresh coat of paint for an old...
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Accessible View: An ARIA for web search


From time to time, our own T.V. Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see -- tips that sighted people, among others, may also find useful. In the spirit of a recent post discussing some of our...
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Happy Tweets Ranks the Happy Tweeps


Happy Tweets runs the numbers on your most recent tweets to see how happy you are. Are you ready for this optimistic meme to sweep through the...
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An Application Marketplace Architecture


Recently I've been thinking about the increasing attention being paid to application marketplaces. My current conclusion is that there is a strong linkage between application marketplaces and the 4 forces of long tail software I described in my...
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