The goal of the adding more videos to the feed is to increase user engagement and video watch time by providing more personalized content that users are likely to click on and watch. Much like social feeds and personalized search results, YouTube...
Authorship also became a key opportunity as the importance of influence, recommendations and author content began to be shown in personalized search results. Google continued its clamp down of third party tools that 'scrape data' from Google.
But it too is threatened in its ability to satisfy the growing, personalized “concierge”-type search heralded by Siri, which is why, like its competition, Google is looking at fascinating other ways of satisfying the human need for information.
The personalized home page debuted two years before that and was touted as Google's fastest growing product in 2006. In another of what Google calls their “spring cleaning” announcements, the web/mobile/media/social/search giant revealed more...
Leverage geoIP data to provide faster, locally relevant, and personalized landing page experiences. Google Mobile Movement Study, 2011 Google Mobile Movement Study, 2011 There are over 4 billion mobile phones on the planet, and Google estimates by...
The history option saves searches and personalized preferences to narrow down search results along with the ability to download the data. However, after this test run, we still prefer Google, which is even faster and easier to use directly from...
Android devices are always logged in, so those users will see more personalized search results due to the data mined from their devices. In general, Google Places rankings will be higher in mobile than for desktop for all devices.
Their primary areas of focus over the last year, he said, have been Google Plus and search – though it’s worth noting that he’s actually speaking of Search Plus Your World, personalized signed in search that is customized based on social activity.
Encrypted search paved the way for the launch of Google’s Search Plus Your World, as Google aimed to protect the privacy of users in preparation of an increased emphasis on personalized search results.
Search Plus essentially aggregates data from your Google+ network (when you're signed in) and delivers personalized results (from your Google+ network), which get bumped up to the top of your search engine result page (SERP).
These personalized recommendations are based on the places and ratings you've already shared," according to Google LatLong. Many people have Google as their default home page and the more they add to their products - accessible now from the new...
Once again, my social network has personalized my version of the SERPs to give some content a greater chance of being clicked on that it generally has. Now what if I’m logged into Google? Suddenly there are people that I’m connected to with my...
For more on some of the issues with bounce rates and implicit feedback, there are a ton of papers at the end of this post.Another interesting part of personalization in search, for Google at least, is what is known as 'Personalized PageRank'.
GraphRank isn’t a global score, but a personalized view of you and your friends’ tastes. This type of data, collected at such a personalized level, is a marketer’s dream. If Google+ is able to draw Facebook users over to their platform and offer...
You can check out how search results (and, perhaps, your profile or company) appear on a de-personalized search at this URL. To draw attention to the wide release, today Google used their home page to encourage its huge user base to sign up for...
So Happy New Year everyone, and may Google bring us Google Classic -- the no-geolocation, no-cookie, no-personalized, all-under-your-control search engine in the new year. All Personalized Search -- Getting to Know All About You
Their new personalized M&M's site looks great, but because the main home page was made in Flash, the company is stuck with a first impression that is anything but welcoming. The latest addition to Google's search results page allows users to...
Blekko's search results are personalized to your user profile - but not in a behavioral sense. However, it is more powerful than Google as you can query links to a specific page/URL.rank However, in stark contrast to Google and Bing, Blekko takes a...
The Bing-Facebook personalized search results are beginning to roll out. Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be profiled in "Bloomberg Game Changers," a new documentary series that focuses on some of today's most influential people.
Google has shown more and more their ambition to deliver personalized results. Google has become increasingly specialized over the last few years. Aside from the anchor text, the words and topics on the linking page send strong messages about the...
