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...
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...
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. Big D was a new data center with major software upgrades implemented that affected how the algorithm crawled and indexed sites.
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: Singhal: And based on that, we basically formed some definition of what could be considered low quality.
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. We want to help our clients build a high quality web presence...
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. Why Google's Panda Algorithm Update Dropped Sites by Danny Goodwin
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. Our classifier that we built this time does a very good job of finding low-quality sites...
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.
Google Fellow Amit Singhal told Wired "no algorithm is 100 percent accurate. So curious, Horowitz started to reach out to the numerous people at Google she had worked with -- AdSense, where their partnership with Google had made both companies a...
The change announcement by Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal included "Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. The impact of Google's latest search ranking algorithm update is starting to show.
Yesterday, Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and head of the company's search quality, ranking, and algorithm team, denied another common allegation: that Google Instant favors big brands. Yahoo Video Becomes #2 Video Site -- Just Before Being Shuttered...
Yesterday, Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and head of the company's search quality, ranking, and algorithm team, denied another common allegation: that Google Instant favors big brands. Singhal also said that "what we do at Google and what we've done...
NY Times Goes Deep on GoogleAn article in Sunday's New York Times goes in-depth with Google's Amit Singhal, one of the Google engineers on the search quality team primarily responsible for building, maintaining and tweaking its ranking algorithm.
An article in Sunday's New York Times, Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine, goes in-depth with Google's Amit Singhal, one of the Google engineers on the search quality team primarily responsible for building, maintaining and tweaking its...
