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Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries (Annotated)

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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

Doodle 4 Google 2012: Behind the Scenes with the Doodle Team

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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