Following a scandal involving one merchant (who eventually was sentenced to 4 years in prison) who used negative publicity to rank higher in Google's search results in 2010, Google Fellow Amit Singhal, in announcing an algorithmic change, stated...
The patent paperwork was filed in 2003 and lists Amit Singhal, Matt Cutts and Jun Wu as inventors. Late last week, Google’s head of webspam Matt Cutts announced a “small,” upcoming algorithm change meant to reduce the amount of low quality exact...
Rodriguez’s dreadful experience,” wrote Google fellow Amit Singhal. The algorithm we incorporated into our search rankings represents an initial solution to this issue, and Google users are now getting a better experience as a result.
Since we re-booted our copyright removals over two years ago, we have been given much more data by copyright owners about infringing content online," Google senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal said in a company blog post.
Google’s Senior VP Amit Singhal has already hit back with a blog post of his own to set the record straight – from Google’s perspective anyway. And as Singhal pointed out in his rebuttal, Bing and other search engines are also guilty of sending...
Google Fellow Amit Singhal, 2008 Though search results are selected and sorted according to a computerized algorithm, search engineers influence that algorithm, exercising a form of editorial judgment, says a new report commissioned by Google.
Another graduate student who studied with Salton is Amit Singhal, the Google Fellow who has been especially focused on “helping people find high-quality sites in Google’s search results. On May 6, 2011, Singhal posted what he called "guidance" to...
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts revealed that they used the code name ”Panda” to refer to the update internally. We’ve done research and looked at the most notable and peculiar names that Google has given their algorithm updates over the years (and a...
The focus of this meeting, led by Amit Singhal, was on misspellings and how to improve spelling corrections for long queries. Search algorithm improvements often rely on and impact many different systems, so engineers with expertise in different...
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, revealed in a recent Mashable interview that Google aimed to “build a huge knowledge graph of interconnected entities and their attributes. In the future, the algorithm won't accept that you feature some keyword terms...
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts explained further how Panda sniffs out low quality sites, in a March interview with Wired: Image by Amit Agarwal Singhal:We wanted to keep it strictly scientific, so we used our standard evaluation system that we’ve...
Google Fellow Amit Singhal said, "My dream has always been to build the Star Trek computer. Singhal notes, though, that even answering complex queries effectively won't be the end; users will simply raise the bar again, and Google will try to meet...
In a post on the Official Google Blog, Amit Singhal lists recent events, hot topics, recurring events, or topics with frequently updated information as the types of searches that will benefit from the freshness update.
And Amit Singhal agreed: "There is absolutely no algorithm out there which, when published, would not be gamed. That said, I think any web team who’s been hit by Panda would strongly disagree with Amit Singhal when he quips, focus on delivering...
Google's Amit Singhal recently shared 23 questions to offer guidance on “building a high quality website. Singhal’s questions in bold, I’ll share the story of a former client’s website. If you constantly “chase the algorithm,” you might find that...
In a new blog post on Google Webmaster Central, Google's Amit Singhal has posted what he calls "guidance" to webmasters in the form of 24 questions you should ask yourself as you go about recovering and determining "quality.
In an interview with Wired, Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal, leaders in Google's search quality team, discussed the fact that surveys were conducted with outside testers to find out what their users considered to be a low quality site.
Google's Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal have revealed some more about what is officially known as the Google Panda update, Google's latest algorithm update. The impact of Google's latest search ranking algorithm update is starting to show.
Google's Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal have revealed some more about what is officially known as the Google Panda update, Google's latest algorithm update. But Google still is having trouble defining "low quality" - with Singhal saying Google still...
So Google is denying manual intervention here (Google's Amit Singhal also denied manually improving rankings to the Wall Street Journal), but that doesn't mean Google hasn't rolled out some sort of minor update to the larger algorithm change.
