This day in search marketing history: February 10
Google refreshes Page Layout Algorithm, plus: Google's ads impact on advertisers, poor grammar, Google Buzz reaction and more
Topic: Udi Manber
Twiggle offers plug-and-play semantic search to online retailers
Company says its sophisticated search can be implemented without replacement of existing enterprise search.
SearchCap: Udi Manber Leaves Google, Bing Ads Mom’s Day & No Panda & Penguin Whitelists
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Says There’s No Whitelist To Save You From Panda Or Penguin Google’s John Mueller said there is no whitelist for the Penguin and Panda algorithms, like there is for the […]
After Nine Years, Google’s Udi Manber Moves On
Executive had been at Amazon and Yahoo before Google.
Udi Manber Moves To YouTube As Head Of Search
Udi Manber, a longtime Google search executive, has been shifted over to YouTube where he’ll lead search efforts on Google’s super-popular video sharing/viewing website. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in an article about executive changes at YouTube. A Google spokesperson confirmed Manber’s move with us, saying via email: I can […]
Financial Analyst Affirms Google’s $1 Billion In “Default Search” Payments To Apple
Last year the FTC asked Apple to disclose the terms of Google’s “default” search presence on iOS. This was part of the US government’s broader antitrust investigation of Google, which is now over. To my knowledge, none of that information made it out into the public eye. However, at approximately the same time, an analyst […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 16, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Launches Disavow Links Tool Google has launched a new and widely anticipated “disavow links” tool. The tool was announced by the head of Google’s web spam team Matt Cutts, when […]
Apple Hires A Search Geek (From Amazon) To Improve Siri
It would appear that Siri will be getting a little more searchy. As AllThingsD reported this afternoon Apple has hired William Stasior, the guy who took over at Amazon’s search engine A9 after Udi Manber left for Google. While Siri isn’t a search engine it can operate like one from a user perspective. With Stasior’s […]
“Knowledge” Replaces “Search” For Google
Google’s no longer in the “search” business — it’s now in the “knowledge” business. OK, not exactly. TechCrunch points to a April 11, 2011 SEC filing that discloses a job-title change for Alan Eustace, Google’s Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research. He has become Google’s Senior Vice President, Knowledge. It was widely believed that Eustace was […]
Google’s Executive Reorg: Does It Matter?
As we and others reported yesterday, Google CEO Larry Page is shuffling the deck with his executive team, with a reassertion of engineering across the board it appears. Here’s the Google roster of top executives as it still reads on the site: Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Sergey Brin, Co-Founder Nikesh Arora, Senior […]
Larry Page And The Reinvention Of “The Google”
We’re watching something really fascinating happening at Google: a very public effort to prevent the company from falling prey to the kind of bureaucratic molasses that has enveloped so many companies before it. Many have complained that Google is already there. Perhaps. But it’s nothing like at Nokia, for example, which continues to struggle with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 25, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Schmidt’s “Just Move” Joke About Google Street View & How It Went Missing Don’t like Google Street View taking pictures of your house? “Just move,” joked Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook On Social Search: ‘We Want To Work With Everybody’ That was a statement Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made in response to a question at the end of the Bing-Facebook press […]
Google’s Marissa Mayer Checks In To New Location & Local Role Within Company
Bloomberg reports Google’s popular Marissa Mayer, VP of search products, is switching roles and moving into location and local services. Marissa is responsible for what you see today at Google.com. She is responsible for pretty much all the user interfaces tested, deployed and torn down on Google’s various search products, including the most recent Google […]
Google Makes One Change Per Day To Search Algorithm
Google’s Matt Cutts just posted a video on YouTube answering the question, “how many search algorithm changes were made in 2009?” In response to that question, Matt said Google likely makes a change per day to the search algorithm. They don’t necessarily release those changes each day, but they will release them in batches. But […]
The Google Decade: Search In Review, 2000 To 2009
The 2000s were notable as the first full decade of consumer search. The first decade ever where you could try to sum up what happened in search, as a consumer product. And what happened, in a word, was Google. In the 1990s, Google barely existed. If search were a religion, it was polytheistic. There were […]
BusinessWeek Dives Deep Into Google’s Search Quality
In a series of interviews and articles recently published online, BusinessWeek magazine tries to open up the curtains on Google’s search quality team — the ways team members evaluate Google’s search rankings and their decision-making process when changes are being made. Perhaps the place to start is with BusinessWeek’s interview of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, […]
Microsoft’s Lu A Formidable Search Foe For Google
The NY Times offers an extensive and flattering profile of the former Yahoo EVP Qi Lu who, in January, 2009 was named president of online services for Microsoft. Lu was deemed an unlikely appointment by some given his background not as a business and advertising executive but rather as an engineer. However, he was apparently instrumental […]
Live Blogging Google Searchology 2009
Almost an annual event, Google Searchology is a time when Google struts its search stuff in front of assorted reporters. Today’s event gets going at 10am Pacific time. I’ll be live blogging from this page, and you can also watch the event yourself via this webcast. You can also follow @google on Twitter, which will […]
Google’s Searchology Event: An “Insider’s Perspective On Search”
Tomorrow from 10am – 11:30am PDT, Google will live stream their latest Searchology event. We will be live blogging at the event, so if you can’t watch the Google webcast, check here for all the news as it unfolds. In 2007, Google held their first Searchology event, where they announced universal search. Universal search, of […]
The Google Hive Mind
As Google turns 10 years old, that important birthday sees the company more powerful than ever before. With its competitors in disarray, the Big G seems likely to grow even further. The secret to its success? For me, it’s what I’ve been calling the “Google Hive Mind. ” Rather than follow a rigid top-down master […]
Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation
After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia — and there are good arguments to back this up — I still think the easiest way to […]
Representing Your Business on the Social Web
The Web is getting more social, and the internet allows conversations between consumers and those who sell goods and services online on a scale that can be global in reach. The nature of that conversation has changed from the days of mass media to now, and success in business on the Web may rely more […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 21, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
A Deeper Look At Google’s Search Quality Efforts
Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality at Google, wrote a fairly long post at the Google Blog on introducing search quality to the public. In short, Udi explains the various teams within the search quality group and explains what each team does. I will highlight below the parts I personally found most interesting:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Two New Google Search Quality Interviews
There are two new interviews available, one from Google’s VP of search quality, Udi Manber, and one from Googler Matt Cutts. Popular Mechanics interviewed Udi Manber and posted the interview transcript online. Matt Cutts did an audio/podcast interview with Duct Tape Marketing. Here is a summary of my notes from each interview:
Megachart & Analysis: Google Executive Management Changes, 2000-2008
With two high-ranking Google executives leaving the Big G within a month’s time, I thought it would be interesting to go back through Google’s executive management page over the years and see how it reflects changes among the higher-ups. Below, there are a series of tables and commentary that hopefully let you understand the shifting […]
A Search Product CEO – Necessary To Win The Search Engine Game?
With Jim Lanzone being replaced as Ask.com’s CEO, I thought it time to do a piece that’s been banging about in my head. Do successful search companies have to have CEOs or top execs who "grew up" from the search product side? The jury is probably still out, but it’s interesting to look back at […]
Google Knol – Google’s Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages
Move over Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo, and Squidoo. Maybe. That’s because Google’s testing its own service to let people build a repository of knowledge. In fact, knowledge forms the core of the service’s name: Google Knol. Screenshot of Google Knol page (feel free to use this and those below, just link to this story, please) […]
Aaron Wall Does Q&A With Danny Sullivan
Aaron Wall of SEO Book has posted a new interview with me. I normally don’t highlight these type of interviews here on the blog, but Aaron asked a lot of interesting questions that really got me thinking — and I thought readers here might like a heads-up about it. In the interview, he asks me […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine
Google’s Udi Manber – Search is a Hard Problem from Read/Write Web has an interesting write up on a presentation that Udi Manber, Google’s VP of Engineering, gave the other day at Supernova. In his presentation, he covered why “search is a hard problem.” But a few of his statements really stood out from the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 7, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results
Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human editors at Mahalo have assembled a page that lists actual hotels in Paris rather […]
More Maps Announcements Coming This Week
The conference Where 2.0 begins tomorrow in San Jose, California. It’s about mapping, mashups and location-based services and there should be a range of interesting announcements from companies large and small. To that end, Garrett Rogers speculates, based on domain name registrations, that Google will be announcing a “street view” mapping capability at the show. […]
Google Launches ‘Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)’
As promised at its “Searchology” event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It’s now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this on a more limited basis […]
Google’s Promising, But Yahoo’s Doing, Cross Language Information Retrieval
Yesterday, Google announced that it will soon be launching a cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) feature. As Greg Sterling wrote: “Search queries will be entered in the native language, translated into English and run against Google’s index. Any retrieved pages/sites will then be translated from English back into the native language. [Google’s Udi] Manber said it […]
Google Searchology: CLIR and Views
There was a laundry list of announcements that Google made today. Danny has captured the big ones. Here are a couple of things on the list that didn’t make the headlines: CLIR and Google Views (Experimental/Labs).