"People communicate with each other by conversation, not by typing keywords -- and we've been hard at work to make Google understand and answer your questions more like people do," said Google's Amit Singhal in a post on features announced at...
After all, it's all about building relationships not links, so while it's easy to take away that content is still king, fellow Googler Amit Singhal hits the nail on the head when he says: "But fundamentally it's not just about content.
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...
When Google launched Knowledge Graph in May, Engineering SVP Amit Singhal described the “People also search for” feature as “magical,” crediting this feature for some of his “most serendipitous discoveries.
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 former owner/operator of DecorMyEyes.com was also ordered to pay nearly $100,000 in restitution and fines as a result of his use of threats of rape, murder, and dismemberment...
In a Google+ post, Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and "Star Trek" fan explains "a team of outstanding designers and engineers, and numerous Star Trek fans at Google, got really creative with this one. Trekkies and geeks worldwide will certainly...
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.
Thanks to the Knowledge Graph, we can now give you these different suggestions of real-world entities in the search box as you type,” noted Amit Singhal, SVP Google Search, on the blog post. Google has unveiled its latest search innovation – adding...
According to Amit Singhal, a top Google search executive, the goal is to make the search experience comparable to, “how humans understand the world. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal shed light on Google’s plans to add depth to the search...
And as Singhal pointed out in his rebuttal, Bing and other search engines are also guilty of sending users to their other properties. Google’s Senior VP Amit Singhal has already hit back with a blog post of his own to set the record straight – from...
Early indications are that people are interacting with it more, learning about more things…and doing more [search] queries,” Google’s Senior VP Amit Singhal told the Wall Street Journal. A Google spokesperson backed up Singhal’s claims, saying...
Google’s Engineering SVP Amit Singhal wrote in the launch post, “.some of the most serendipitous discoveries I’ve made using the Knowledge Graph are through the magical ‘People also search for’ feature.
Google Fellow Amit Singhal, 2008 Search engine results are a form of opinion; companies like Google offer information they think is most relevant to users. In addition, Google and other search engines are media enterprises, just as much as The New...
Of course, Singhal didn't disclose the actual ranking signals used in Google’s algorithms because he didn't want folks to game their search results. According to his profile on Google+, Singhal has worked in search for over 20 years – the first 10...
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts revealed that they used the code name ”Panda” to refer to the update internally. Apple names its operating systems after big cats. When Google gets around to naming products and updates, what’s their naming strategy?
The focus of this meeting, led by Amit Singhal, was on misspellings and how to improve spelling corrections for long queries. Google has released an "uncut" 8-minute video of a search quality meeting to show the process of how Google improves its...
Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and SVP of Search, spoke with Bloomberg West this week about the future of search, specifically related to mobile and the Knowledge Graph. Google has built wide search capabilities into mobile search for years and that...
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. Personalization is here! Wait, it was kind of already here, so now is it...
Not until it gets significant access to the data, on terms that "won't change," according to Amit Singhal. Many colleagues, clients, and prospects are keenly interested in the answer to this question.
