Posted by Emilie Danna, Google Research & Michal Segalov,Networking SoftwareThe computer networking community will get together in Orlando, Florida the week of March 25th for INFOCOM 2012, the Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Commun…
Posted by Charles DuHadway and Sanketh Shetty, Google Research In earlier posts we discussed automatic ways to find the most talented emerging singers and the funniest videos using the YouTube Slam experiment. We created five “house” slams — music…
Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine, Research Evangelist and David Chan, Statistician In July 2011, Google released a study called “Incremental Clicks Impact of Search Advertising” that showed the amount of search ad traffic that is incremental to traffic fro…
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University RelationsWith ever-increasing demands being placed on our education system, including new skill sets that need to be taught to create a pipeline that can fill 21st century jobs, we must fig…
Posted by John Blitzer and Douglas Eck, Google Research At the 25th Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Granada, Spain last December, we engaged in dialogue with a diverse population of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, sta…
Posted by David Harper, Head of University Relations, EMEAAs part of EMEA’s 2011 Android Educational Outreach program, we recently granted over 300 Android-powered mobile phones to 40 universities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These p…
Posted by Sanketh Shetty, YouTube Slam Team, Google Research In a previous post, we talked about quantification of musical talent using machine learning on acoustic features for YouTube Music Slam. We wondered if we could do the same for funny vid…
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Posted by John Taylor and Kevin SerafiniIn May 2009 we launched Google Sky Map: our “window on the sky” for Android phones. Created by half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office in our 20% time, the app was designed to show off the amazing cap…
Posted by Dan Vanderkam, Software Engineer Google’s BigQuery Service lets enterprises and developers crunch large-scale data sets quickly. But what if you don’t have a large-scale data set of your own?To help the data-less masses, BigQuery offers …
Posted by Matt Mohebbi, Software Engineer In May of this year we launched Google Correlate on Google Labs. This system enables a correlation search between a user-provided time series and millions of time series of Google search traffic. Since our ini…
Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Analysis TeamAdvertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomi…
Posted by John Wilkes, Principal Software EngineerGoogle has a strong interest in promoting high quality systems research, and we believe that providing information about real-life workloads to the academic community can help.In support of this we publ…
Posted by Alon Halevy, Senior Staff Research Scientist Cross-posted with the Public Sector and Elections Lab BlogOne of the things I most enjoy about working on data management is the ability to work on a variety of problems, both in the private secto…
Posted by David Chan and Lizzy Van Alstine, Quantitative Management TeamAdvertisers often wonder whether search ads cannibalize their organic traffic. In other words, if search ads were paused, would clicks on organic results increase, and make up for …