Posted by Jake Brutlag, Web Search InfrastructureAt Google, we've gathered hard data to reinforce our intuition that "speed matters" on the Internet. Google runs experiments on the search results page to understand and improve the search experience. Recently, we conducted some experiments to determine how users react when web search takes longer. We've always viewed speed as a competitive advantage, so this research is important to understand the trade-off between speed and other features we might introduce. We wanted to share this information...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Monday, 22 June 2009
Posted by Jay Yagnik, Head of Computer Vision Research[Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog]Science fiction books and movies have long imagined that computers will someday be able to see and interpret the world. At Google, we think computer vision has tremendous potential benefits for consumers, which is why we're dedicated to research in this area. And today, a Google team is presenting a paper on landmark recognition (think: Statue of Liberty,...
Monday, 15 June 2009
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Systems Infrastructure TeamIf you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, social networks, popularized by Web 2.0, are graphs that describe relationships among people. Transportation routes create a graph of physical connections among geographical locations. Paths of disease outbreaks form a graph, as do games among soccer teams, computer network topologies, and citations among scientific papers. Perhaps the most pervasive graph is the web itself, where documents are vertices...
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Posted by Alon Halevy, Google Research and Rebecca Shapley, User ExperienceDatabase systems are notorious for being hard to use. It is even more difficult to integrate data from multiple sources and collaborate on large data sets with people outside your organization. Without an easy way to offer all the collaborators access to the same server, data sets get copied, emailed and ftp'd--resulting in multiple versions that get out of sync very quickly.Today...
Monday, 8 June 2009
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchMany hundreds of us at Google were fortunate to have been educated, advised, and inspired by Professor Rajeev Motwani. Six of us were his PhD students and very many others (including our founders) were advised by or took courses from him. Others Googlers, who were not students at Stanford, had close collegial relations. But, no matter what the relationship, we respected Rajeev as a great man. He was not just a mathematically deep computer scientist, not just an entrepreneurial computer scientist who catalyzed...
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