How Human Evaluators Might Help Decide Upon Rankings for Search Results at Google

Google Human evaluators

Do Human Evaluators Influence Search Rankings? A Google patent granted last week describes how the search engine might enable people to experiment with changing the weight and value of different ranking signals for web pages to gauge how those changes might influence the quality of search results for specific queries. The patent lists Misha Zatsman, … Read more

Patent Filings from Google’s Acquisition of Apture and Katango: Highlighted Search, YouTube Sliders, and Intelligent Social Media Agents?

Imagine being able to highlight any text on a web page and search the Web based upon that text? Or an easier way to embed videos or other content in windows that will appear and open up without launching a new browser window. Now imagine that your Google Plus Circles could engage in friend relationship … Read more