Posted by Alfred Spector, VP Research and Special InitiativesI just returned from giving a talk at the 18th World Wide Web Conference in Madrid and was pleased to see a healthy and dynamic conference despite difficult economic conditions. Madrid had be…
Posted by Jeff Walz and Andrea HeldThe first goal of the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative was to familiarize the academic community with the methods necessary to run very large datasets on massive distributed computer networks. By expanding that …
Posted by Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet BalujaUnfortunately, there is a war going on between humans and ‘bots. Software’bots are attempting to generate massive numbers of computer accountswhich are then sold in bulk to spammers. Spammers use …
Posted by Ben Bayer, Google ResearchAlfred Spector, Google’s VP of Research, tells COMPUTERWORLD the ins and outs of Research at Google and where it’s headed for the future. Read the complete interview here.
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Decision Support Engineering AnalystCan Google queries help predict economic activity?The answer depends on what you mean by “predict.” Google Trends and Google Insights for Search provide a re…
Posted by Fernando Pereira, Google ResearchAlon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and I argue that we should stop acting as if our goal is to author extremely elegant theories, and instead embrace complexity and make use of the best ally we have: the unreasonable …
Posted by Jeff Walz, University Relations and Anne Bray, Head of Agency, WPPGoogle and the WPP Group have teamed up to create a new research program with the goal of improving industry understanding of digital marketing. Eleven research awards have bee…
Posted by T.V Raman, Research ScientistA little over a year ago, I gave a lightning talk at the W3C Technical Plenary in Boston where I looked forward to what came after Web-2.0. The key insight underlying that talk was that the Web was now mature enou…
Posted by Vahab S. Mirrokni and Muthu MuthukrishnanGoogle auctions ads, and enables a market with millions of advertisers and users. This market presents a unique opportunity to test and refine economic principles as applied to a very large number o…
Posted by Juan Vargas, University RelationsFor most people, the word “Google” evokes associations of Internet search, free apps, and advertising–a far cry from our roots in research and academia. Google, however, has not lost sight of that fundamental…
Posted by Tomáš Ižo (Software Engineer) and Jay Yagnik (Head of Computer Vision Research)One of our favorite aspects of Google web search are the informative snippets that appear with each search result. The more relevant they are, the quicker we…
Posted by Anthony FrancisMaybe your computer just needs a hugI’m Anthony Francis, an artificial intelligence researcher working in Google’s Search Quality group. One of the things I like about Google is that we give back to the world in ways that mak…
Posted by Shankar Kumar and Wolfgang MachereyAt Google, we like search. So it’s no surprise that we treat language translation as a search problem. We build statistical models of how one language maps to another (the translation model) and models of…
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special InitiativesWe’ve just posted the first three videos in the Google Technology Roundtable Series. Each one is a discussion with senior Google researchers and technologists about one of our most sig…
Posted by Franz Josef OchMachine translation is hard. Natural languages are so complex and haveso many ambiguities and exceptions that teaching a computer totranslate between them turned out to be a much harder problem thanpeople thought when the field…