In a new blog post, Cutts stated that the rollout is now complete and affects 2.3 percent of English-U.S.queries, and that it affects non-English queries as well. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might...
April also saw the first non-English language ad to make the U.S.list, demonstrating the power of YouTube to engage any audience. YouTube uses an algorithm that factors in paid views, organic views, and view rate (how much of a video people choose...
Then all three of you – you the English speakers, your clients the Japanese speakers, and the translator – can communicate easier without having to rely on the sub-par Internet translations. Example: If you're doing business with Japan, you're...
We could also buy entire blog posts – some spun by computer programs; others composed by underpaid writers whose first language wasn't English. Very few people were being outright malicious. Building good links wasn't normal, and some people in the...
Searches can be conducted in eight languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician and Dutch. A blog post from Noam Ben Haim, senior product manager for travel at Google, said that it is only available, or applicable, for...
Consequently optimization for India is often done in a non-official and non-native language, English. In the U.S.there are tens of millions of non-English speakers who represent a huge potential audience that may be underserved when it comes to...
I always chuckle when I see a site with lots of links from Polish sites where the page is written entirely in Polish and right in the middle somewhere is this rich anchor text phrases in English. However, many people have fallen into cranking out...
When an English person asks a non-English person, “how are you? Or you can say the dude you work for in the office in Germany is a “Sitzpinkler”, which isn’t translatable in English and means “a man who pees sitting down.
Facebook’s announced plan is to roll it out gradually to hundreds of thousands of individuals first (English only), then more broadly for PC-based users, then for non-English languages, and then on mobile.
Requests with broken English, articles with spammy links, and other poor-quality markers can be frustrating, especially when received in bulk. Broken English is easy to spot quickly, and you can always ask that submitters complete a CAPTCHA or...
I realize that is far from proper English, but I feel it makes my point. So when they see long posts they are immediately reminded of times in high school trudging through massive texts of traditional English literature.
The natural way a person native to the English language will look at something is from left to right. Makes sense right – it's the way English is written. In this area of Korea, there are many people who are considered posers and wannabes, and the...
Just as your elementary English teacher taught you, there are rules that need to be applied to semantic parsers, as well. If you had been learning English as a second language, this would have been a very helpful exercise in helping you understand...
The new German site includes the localized descriptions and information on 58,000 products from English into German. If initiatives to optimize consumer-facing opportunities are offered in English only, site owners will miss the opportunity to...
There are users from other countries as well but they are almost exclusively English speaking as well, as all the apps we provide are written in English and to use them properly one needs to read the instructions.
Crisis response is a global effort, so it is not always in the English language. SEW met the people behind Google Crisis Response at I/O 2012. The first "product" (for lack of a better word), was PersonFinder which generated over fifty-five...
This launch extended the Knowledge Graph to English-speaking locales beyond the U.S. Knowledge Graph Carousel.project “Knowledge Graph”] This change expanded the Knowledge Graph carousel feature globally in English.project “Knowledge Graph”] This...
The Knowledge Graph is available worldwide now, provided the search is made in English. Today, the Knowledge Graph database holds information about 500 million people, places, and things. And we can now sometimes help answer your next question...
When analyzing the quantity of tweaks and improvements made to Google search functionality based on details culled and classified from the Inside Search blog, Google is actually exerting more effort on query freshness, better short answers, and...
Cutts also tweeted, “New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. UPDATE: Google has confirmed that during the same time as the EMD update was announced, a significant update to the Panda algorithm...