Google has start showing survey questions at the bottom of some of the millions of health-related search queries. A search for headache may now trigger a query in response, such as: “Did you search because you or someone you know has a headache?” Google says getting better stats can help with flu trends detections (swine [...]
Google Health Queries Query Back
May 16th, 2009The iPhone ‘Bar-Bet’ Phenomenon
May 11th, 2009According to the Official Google research blog, a new logs-based study indicates that high-end phones such as the iPhone are in fact completely altering the way some people search – especially on mobiles. It was found that search from these phones not only mimics computer web search patterns, but can actually surpass the parameters of [...]
Google’s Query Expansion
January 5th, 2009Google keeps adapting their algorithms for search related queries. In the future, we may start seeing more and more anticipation of our needs, as they refine results to give us what we really want – even if we don’t ask for it right! Google currently uses stemming, as described by the company itself: Word variations [...]