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As part of our continued effort to be more transparent about how search works, we’re publishing video footage from our internal weekly search meeting: “Quality Launch Review.” We hold the meeting almost every Thursday to discuss possible algorithmic improvements and make decisions about what to launch. This video is from the meeting that happened on December 1st, 2011, and includes the entire uncut discussion of a real algorithmic improvement to our spell correction system. The language can be technical, so we’ve included annotations to provide some context for the discussion (and have a little fun!).... Read More

Ad from the Good to Know campaign explaining how you can use “Me on the web” to control what the world sees about you online. ... Read More

Calling all young artists: there are only a few days left to submit artwork for the 2012 US Doodle 4 Google. In this video, our doodle team (the Googlers who design the artwork you see from time to time on Google’s homepage) shows how Google doodles are created as a special encouragement to young artists to get involved in this year’s contest. And don’t forget, all submissions are due March 23rd so there’s not a moment to wait!... Read More

David Beckham stopped by Google’s Mountain View headquarters for a live Q&A with Googlers, where he also took questions from fans across the world on January 19th, 2012. Watch the full interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VveDqucdfnc... Read More

Create presentations together. Google Docs lets you create, share and collaborate on presentations with others. Go to http://docs.google.com to give it a try.... Read More

The best man gets help from the wedding party on the Best Best Man speech. Collaborate anywhere with the updated Google Docs app for Android.... Read More

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Abstract: How well DO people search on Google? Although popular opinion is that “everyone is above average,” that obviously can’t be true. The truth is that self-perceptions of search expertise are often wildly over-estimated and that people, on average, actually use only a fraction of the potential of Google. They both don’t know much of what’s possible, and don’t understand where internet search capabilities are headed. Since the rate of change and improvements isn’t slowly down, in this talk I’ll examine where we are, and where we’re headed, and conclude with some heuristics for teaching research skills in the years ahead. ... Read More