Revised December 2018
-
Imagine 200 factors, imagine Google changing the order of 42 of the 200 factors, increase the value of HTTPS 18%, decrease ...https://www.searchenginejournal.com/what-is-a-google-broad-core-algorithm-update/264261/
-
What's really new [products] with Google!http://www.google.com/newproducts/
-
Animated images from Google and Binghttps://www.seroundtable.com/bing-images-animated-gifs-19384.html
-
"the PR you see publicly is different from the number our algorithm actually uses for ranking."http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2011/06/beyond-pagerank-graduating-to.html
-
Humingbird - algorithm changehttp://goo.gl/iuEtH8
-
https://cse.google.com/cse/home?cx=017167864583314760984:iecnygefhky
-
What MAY be considered when ranking webpages.http://www.seobythesea.com/2014/12/replacement-pagerank/?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top10
-
Not new but with improved capabilities to show trends since 2004http://www.google.com/trends/
-
May 11, 2015https://www.seroundtable.com/google-200-signals-20280.html
-
"comprehensive guide to Google and antitrust actions over the years"http://goo.gl/ljCaO
-
"more than 100bn searches made per month to Google (total of desktop/ tablet/ mobile)"https://theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/searches-average-mobile-google-problem/
-
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect#update
-
Middle image is a movie.http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html
-
Timeline of the history of search engineshttp://www.searchenginejournal.com/search-engine-history/13152/
-
"This report summarizes our advice to the company [Google], by the Advisory Council to Google.https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1UgZshetMd4cEI3SjlvV0hNbDA/view
-
"The Google app is starting to truly understand the meaning of what you’re asking."http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-google-app-now-understands-you.html
-
Google appears in rankings in 2001.http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/15/from-lycos-to-ask-jeeves-to-facebook-tracking-the-20-most-popular-web-sites-every-year-since-1996/
-
Useful for webpage evaluationhttp://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html
-
Country codes for Google searchhttps://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_Google_domains.html
-
Google will use "the literal words entered without making normal improvements."http://searchengineland.com/responding-to-complaints-google-adds-verbatim-search-results-101226
-
TO MILLENNIALS: Google = serious + functionalhttps://storage.googleapis.com/think/docs/its-lit.pdf
-
"... here’s a peek at some of the trending U.S. topics that caught our attention as especially unique to this year."https://blog.google/products/search/year-search-2016/
-
"If you only have desktop content, you will be represented in our index.”https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/google-begins-to-roll-out-its-mobile-first-index/
-
No change since 2013https://www.seroundtable.com/google-15-percent-queries-25730.html
-
https://goo.gl/KMNdyC
-
Type a name and select "Create My Search Page Now"http://www.goglogo.com/
-
https://goo.gl/E55u8e
-
https://goo.gl/qwrBCL
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKT93faSVLI
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thw7L-UVQzo
-
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-keywords-in-urls-a-small-ranking-factor-21577.html
-
"he practice of harming your competitors in the search results"https://www.seroundtable.com/negative-seo-solicits-19806.html
-
Response to Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling in Google Spain vs AEPDhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1UgZshetMd4cEI3SjlvV0hNbDA/view
-
CAPTCHA with explanationhttp://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://sorry.google.com/#
-
https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvZF-yP_ceU?feature=player_detailpage
-
Security/privacy concernhttps://medium.com/@jeremyrubin/caution-copy-pasting-urls-from-google-search-can-leak-previous-searches-11940508e79#.dlfrdyevk
-
"digital natives still need help to develop the knowhow to navigate the online world.”http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/kids-confused-by-google-ads-and-search/
-
Google is "showing you what they want you to see."http://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-uselessness-of-google-search-results/
-
Google "maps do not show a single and objective reality, but rather affirm existing perspectives of the world."http://jtl.columbia.edu/googles-world-the-impact-of-agnostic-cartographers-on-the-state-dominated-international-legal-system/
-
Source - Danny Sullivanhttp://searchengineland.com/10-big-changes-search-20-years-covering-246421
-
"Google has colonized more countries than the Ancient Romans."http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/countries_do_not_control_the_internet_companies_do.html
-
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opinion/forget-att-the-real-monopolies-are-google-and-facebook.html?_r=0
-
"t's time for the EU to step in and regulate the world's two biggest media outlets."https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/leighton-andrews/we-need-european-regulation-of-facebook-and-google
-
" ... absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top"http://searchengineland.com/google-search-quality-crisis-272174
-
“There’s significant research into the impact of search results on political views. The way you see the results & the types ofhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
-
"Hate sites are dominating and controlling searches on Muslims, Jews, Hitler & women & Google is failing to tackle the problem.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-must-review-its-search-rankings-because-of-rightwing-manipulation
-
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-autocompletes-anti-semitism-sexism-racism/
-
"The search giant will no longer suggest you search whether these groups are "evil."https://www.cnet.com/news/google-removes-autocomplete-suggestions-about-jews-women/
-
Search company removes antisemitic and sexist autocomplete phrases after Observer article highlights offensive resultshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-alters-search-autocomplete-remove-are-jews-evil-suggestion
-
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world
-
"They can’t just point to the algorithm and say ‘well, this wasn’t our intent."https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/google-and-its-responsibility-for-search-results/
-
" ... absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top."http://searchengineland.com/google-search-quality-crisis-272174
-
"Predictions, not suggestions"https://www.blog.google/products/search/how-google-autocomplete-works-search/
-
Google's "business practices may have been affected by political bias.”https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu
-
"The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad."https://theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fake-news
-
"Featured snippets can be highly convenient. They also can be highly misleading."https://qz.com/927750/google-will-always-answer-your-questions-but-you-shouldnt-always-let-it/
-
" ... absurd or even dangerous results surface to the top."http://searchengineland.com/google-search-quality-crisis-272174
-
"Google’s multifaceted featured snippets, as the new feature is called, will answer [multiple] questions with one snippet aheadhttps://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/google-expands-snippets-to-answer-more-questions-right-in-the-search-results/
-
"Google is starting with “multi-intent” queries; plans for “guidance-seeking” queries “Is it worth fixing my foundation?.https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17072294/google-featured-snippets-multiple-results
-
Google's "business practices may have been affected by political bias.”https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu
-
http://searchengineland.com/google-1-trillion-searches-per-year-212940
-
http://searchengineland.com/google-search-press-129925
-
Google: 114.7 billion searches, 65.2% sharehttp://searchengineland.com/google-worlds-most-popular-search-engine-148089
-
May 2015http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-a-gigantic-list-of-google-stats-and-facts/
-
"1,100,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors"http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/search-engines
-
"more than 100bn searches made per month to Google (total of desktop/ tablet/ mobile)"https://theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/searches-average-mobile-google-problem/
-
As of: Feb 25, 2016http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-a-gigantic-list-of-google-stats-and-facts/
-
Google last claimed 1.2 trillion in 2012.http://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trillion-searches-per-year-250247
-
Scroll down to: Searches per second, minute, day & monthhttp://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trillion-searches-per-year-250247
-
"between 40–60 billion searches happen on Google.com in the US each month."https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed
-
Scroll down to see the breakdown ny second, minute, hour, ...http://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999-trillion-searches-per-year-250247
-
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
-
Check first!https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/
-
MUST SEE!https://www.seroundtable.com/paul-haahr-on-how-google-works-21859.html
-
Transcription of Google engineer Paul Haahr’s “How Google Works”https://builtvisible.com/how-google-works/
-
Focus on keywordshttps://www.wordtracker.com/academy/keyword-research/getting-started/keyword-basics-part-1-how-search-engines-work
-
Discusses RankBrainhttps://www.seroundtable.com/google-understand-complex-algorithms-23848.html
-
Focus: Financial "algo"http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/algorithm.asp?lgl=no-infinite
-
Video covers Google PageRankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVScy7YsKM0
-
It is probably still one of the most important aspects of Google's rankings with content and relevancy.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-yes-pagerank-still-matters-22469.html
-
Links! Links!https://www.searchenginejournal.com/communication-overload-keeping-google-searchs-constant-updates/185168/
-
"March 2016: Google Senior Search Quality Strategist Andrey Lipattsev confirms that content and links are the first & second grehttps://moz.com/blog/state-of-links?
-
There isn’t a generated database of synonyms that Google obtains and uses it for the search results.http://www.thesempost.com/google-search-learns-new-synonyms-time/
-
Explanation of the PageRank formulahttps://blog.majestic.com/company/understanding-googles-algorithm-how-pagerank-works/
-
Source - CNBC "The search engine has no idea what those words mean."https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/17/google-tests-changes-to-its-search-algorithm-how-search-works.html
-
"A lot has changed but fundamentally nothing has changed."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-26591.html
-
"Backlinks continue to remain Google’s most powerful ranking signal."https://theupperranks.com/blog/backlinks/
-
"Links are the difference between popularity and invisibility."https://theupperranks.com/blog/ask-for-links-because-you-cant-rank-without-them/
-
See the diagram.https://moz.com/blog/backlinks-google-study
-
" ... there is no direct and clear connection between user experience and [Google] ranking."https://www.sistrix.com/blog/is-user-experience-a-ranking-factor/
-
Videoshttp://goo.gl/lZxtmS
-
"The AROUND(n) operator MUST BE IN CAPS"http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2010/10/around-has-always-been-around.html
-
"more advanced features of Google Web Search" Seehttp://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861
-
Review "How to"http://www.google.com/support/websearch/
-
Review "Life of a Query"http://www.google.com/insidesearch/underthehood.html
-
"finding web pages that include words or phrases which are near to each other"http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/googles-around-operator.html
-
Additional search features: Reference Tools, Query Refinements and morehttp://www.google.com/help/features.html
-
"documented advanced search operators"https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators
-
Online tutorialhttp://www.googleguide.com/pdf/googleguide.pdf
-
" ... how Google thinks about relevance and quality"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
-
Algorithms, Crawling and Indexing and morehttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/
-
Dan Russell from Googlehttp://goo.gl/Pa3eRH
-
Alternate - http://goo.gl/Hq4Tbhhttp://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html
-
"The Google app is starting to truly understand the meaning of what you’re asking."http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-google-app-now-understands-you.html
-
link: still works!https://www.seroundtable.com/google-link-operator-dead-23248.html
-
Use of the asteriskhttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/advanced-uses-for-googles-site-operator.html
-
Clicking the "Search tools" button AGAIN will display number of resultshttp://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/show-number-of-results-when-using.html
-
Operators for Web and Image searchhttp://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
-
http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://sorry.google.com/
-
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features_list.html
-
Keeping up with changes in Google advanced searchinghttp://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.sg/2015/10/6-common-misconceptions-when-doing.html
-
"methods incorporating Google advanced search terms to conduct searches on Facebook"http://ibraryguy2.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/searching-social-media-pt1/
-
examine methods of conducting higher relevance Twitter searches."http://ibraryguy2.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/searching-social-media-part-2-twitter/
-
http://www.razorsocial.com/4-great-tools-for-searching-social-media/
-
https://sites.google.com/site/dmrussell/
-
https://plus.google.com/+DanRussell/posts
-
https://goo.gl/U8JCKn
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4V_T-Ued8
-
Google search syntaxeshttp://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
-
http://googleforstudents.blogspot.com/
-
Google Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains how AdWords works.http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/introduction-to-ad-auction.html
-
Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varianhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l0a2PVhPQ
-
"conversion rate doesn’t vary much based on ad position."http://searchengineland.com/varian-shares-adwords-secrets-%e2%80%93-will-he-bring-transparency-to-google-24968
-
http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10215
-
US (19) , Europe (12), Russia (1), South America (1), & Asia (3)http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/
-
"How many data centers does Google have? Nobody knows for sure."http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/27/google-data-center-faq/
-
Google = 450,000 Servershttp://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/06/google_data_cen.html
-
" ... 500 IP addresses used by the Google search engine"http://64.233.161.99/
-
Estimate of the number of Google servershttp://seekingalpha.com/article/64892-google-s-one-million-servers-the-new-heavy-industry?source=feed
-
Googleplex in The Dalles, Oregonhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?ex=1307937600&en=d96a72b3c5f91c47&ei=5090
-
Discusses number of servers and how the corporation works.http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=182560,00.asp
-
Harper`s article about The Dalleshttp://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html
-
State-by-state list of where Google operateshttp://searchengineland.com/070426-104031.php
-
2003 Article by Google Employeeshttp://216.239.37.132/papers/googlecluster-ieee.pdf
-
Rather than buy servers, Google has built them from the beginning.http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
-
"advanced data center cooling system"http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/11/30/google-patent-reveals-data-center-innovations/
-
Google’s first dedicated data center in the Nordic countrieshttp://royal.pingdom.com/2010/09/15/googles-mega-data-center-in-finland/
-
Source: Googlehttp://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/
-
"The buzz about the omnipotence of Google left us wondering, what do students think about conducting research?"http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1998/1873
-
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-03-02-n19.html
-
http://www.google-watch.org/
-
UK's Time HIgher Educationhttp://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402225&c=1
-
Atlantic Monthly article: Is the Web changing how we read?http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
-
"Research isn’t a Google search"http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/17/institute
-
http://watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/
-
Phil Bradley in UK's Ariadnehttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/search-engines/
-
Search engines do have biases.http://web.archive.org/web/20060702200025/http://www.stanford.edu/~amd/download/thesis_final.pdf
-
"critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture."http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/
-
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/
-
comprehensive guide to Google and antitrust actions over the years"http://searchengineland.com/googleopoly-the-definitive-guide-to-antitrust-investigations-against-google-82906?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
-
NYT Review of Bookshttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/aug/18/how-google-dominates-us/?pagination=false
-
Source: OCLChttp://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-07b.html
-
Google won’t be on top forever.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/technology/personaltech/googles-time-at-the-top-may-be-nearing-its-end.html?_r=1
-
Discusses acquisitions by Googlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79uIRQiAFM
-
Source: The Atlantichttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/googles-other-moonshot/390558/
-
http://googletransparencyproject.org/
-
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world
-
GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic.https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html
-
60 Minutes xcripthttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-google-get-so-big/
-
Pointers to sources and related readings to Carr`s article, ``Is Google Making Us Stupid``http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/08/is_google_makin.php
-
People have lower rates of recall of the information itself.http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/pdfs/science.1207745.full.pdf
-
"the human brain will forget facts that are easily found online"http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/07/21/google-effect-leads-to-changes-in-memory/print/
-
Google has "begun to profoundly alter the ways in which we think and remember."http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2016.1210171
-
Google is "altering the very structure of our cognitive architecture."https://theconversation.com/google-at-20-how-a-search-engine-became-a-literal-extension-of-our-mind-102510
-
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/how-google-is-changing-our-brains
-
Infographichttp://webpagefxblog.webpagefx1.netdna-cdn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/how-the-internet-changes-your-brain-final.jpg
-
Link to PDFhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1047840X.2013.850148?src=recsys
-
Adrian Ward's Dissertationhttps://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11004901/Ward_gsas.harvard_0084L_11001.pdf?sequence=1
-
http://blogsearch.google.com/
-
Official Google Bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/
-
http://blog.outer-court.com/google/
-
Garett Rogers ZDNethttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/
-
Matt Cutts is a Google Engineer.http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
-
Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Aparthttp://www.captcha.net/
-
Unusual Traffic from Your Computer Networkhttps://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640
-
View an example of a CAPTCHAhttp://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://sorry.google.com/
-
Explanation for receiving a CAPTCHAhttp://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=http://sorry.google.com/#
-
Read: "Automated traffic includes ..."https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640
-
"We identify flaws that allow adversaries to ... deploy large-scale attacks."https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Sivakorn-Im-Not-a-Human-Breaking-the-Google-reCAPTCHA-wp.pdf
-
A directory of Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs), created by site owners & Googlehttp://www.customsearchguide.com/
-
Explains PageRank, the Dance and linkinghttp://www.webworkshop.net/google-articles.html
-
http://www.googleguide.com
-
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-10-google-myths-revealed
-
``Is Google rewriting the rules of good management from top to bottom, in ways that every executive ought to study?``http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118712692927897649.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks
-
Source: The Economisthttp://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9719610
-
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php
-
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/05/15/information_safety_and_accuracy_is.htm
-
Google "uses many factors besides PageRank."http://si110.cms.si.umich.edu/sites/si110.cms.si.umich.edu/files/InfoFinding/Google%20Index%20&%20Rank%20How-to.pdf
-
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_google_a_semantic_search_engine.php
-
No changes expected in SEARCH in the next three years.http://searchengineland.com/070713-115541.php
-
Discusses words per queryhttp://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19050/?a=f
-
"In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine ....http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
-
http://www.google.com/about.html
-
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0604.html
-
http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html
-
Interactive infographichttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/
-
Pages indexed by September 2005http://tinyurl.com/3yowby
-
The number of results is an "estimate."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix3mHeL7hg
-
Videohttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/
-
Matt Cutts on You Tubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoW60fuHn64
-
"PageRank is not a measure of popularity."http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-authority-topics-18353.html
-
``PageRank is just one of more than 200 signals we use to determine the ranking of a Web site.``http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999038-93.html
-
``We use more than 200 signals, including PageRank algorithm, to determine which pages are most important.``http://www.google.com/technology/
-
"Algorithms Over Manual Action"http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/policies.html
-
View the video narrated by Matt Countshttp://www.searchenginejournal.com/understanding-google-from-spidering-to-results/5348/
-
http://tinyurl.com/gewa7
-
Matt Cuttshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zupIbMyMfBI
-
http://www.seo-theory.com/2011/01/07/why-you-cannot-reverse-engineer-googles-algorithm/
-
Gary Illyes" ... links translate in some sense to popularity and endorsement by others."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-external-links-22980.html
-
It is probably still one of the most important aspects of Google's rankings with content and relevancy.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-yes-pagerank-still-matters-22469.html
-
Links!https://www.searchenginejournal.com/communication-overload-keeping-google-searchs-constant-updates/185168/
-
Exceptional videohttp://www.vpdm.ca/google-search-algorithm-predict-changes/
-
Source - Google Inside Searchhttps://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/
-
Updates from 2000 - 2015http://www.seomoz.org/blog/announcing-the-complete-google-algo-history
-
Since 2006 Google does not seem to be indexing more of the Deep Web (OAIster database).www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hagedorn/07hagedorn.html
-
"We are making changes to our ranking algorithm at the rate of two per day."http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20091110/tc_pcworld/googlevpmayerdescribestheperfectsearchengine
-
Google's search quality process: ``there are more than 100 signals the [Google] uses to determine the order of search results``http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9972034-7.html
-
Domain Trust/Authority are increasing in importance.http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-googles-rankings-algorithm-has-changed-over-time-
-
"the biggest factor in Google’s ranking algorithm is still backlinks"http://www.searchenginejournal.com/look-who%e2%80%99s-ranking-now-how-google-can%e2%80%99t-seem-to-stop-the-spammers/20458/
-
Use also for Google does not return best results.http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=135433
-
``PageRank is just one of more than 200 signals we use to determine the ranking of a Web site.``http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999038-93.html
-
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/robots-exclusion-protocol.html
-
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/controlling-how-search-engines-access.html
-
Google has two crawlers: Fresh Bot and Deep Crawl Bot.http://searchengineland.com/070724-072605.php
-
``1 trillion unique URLs`` & the number of webpages grows by ``several billion pages per day.``http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
-
Scroll down to view the graphic and explanationhttp://www.google.com/competition/transparency.html
-
VIDEO on how does Google create its search algorithmshttp://searchengineland.com/an-unprecedented-video-glimpse-into-how-google-crafts-its-search-results-114682?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email
-
Wired Magazine 2010 Articlehttp://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1
-
"Links are still believed to be the most important part of the algorithm."http://moz.com/blog/ranking-factors-2013
-
The 200 metrics Google considers when ranking sites.http://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
-
" different languages require different algorithms or support for those languages"http://www.seroundtable.com/global-google-algorithms-18896.html
-
Google "may have patents that are never used in the algorithm. Patents have no direct influence on the algorithms."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-patent-search-algorithm-17761.html
-
Note the updates to deal with spammershttps://www.joomdev.com/blog/entry/visual-history-of-google-algorithm-updates
-
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~pete5/ir_paper.pdf
-
Importance of keyword location; for example, the titlehttp://www.convinceandconvert.com/digital-marketing/how-important-are-keywords/
-
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/google-algorithm-facts#sm.0000j4hw84wfhemsplk2k0yuyh1j2
-
Focus: Financial "algo"http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/algorithm.asp?lgl=no-infinite
-
Content relevance, Inbound links, Content quality, RankBrainhttp://www.cio.com/article/3104104/search/top-6-seo-ranking-factors-of-2016.html
-
Top 3: Backlinks, Content & RankBrainhttps://mytasker.com/blog/google-ranking-factors/
-
Links!https://www.matthewbarby.com/ranking-in-google/
-
Links, Anchor Text, Content (and location of words: title)https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/confirmed-google-ranking-factors.html
-
Last updated Jan. 5, 2016http://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
-
Another opinionhttps://moz.com/blog/the-myth-of-googles-200-ranking-factors
-
Source: MOZhttps://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
-
Source: MOZSearch Engine Ranking Factors 2015: Expert Survey and Correlation Data
-
"the PR you see publicly is different from the number our algorithm actually uses for ranking."http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ch/2011/06/beyond-pagerank-graduating-to.html
-
May 2015https://www.seroundtable.com/google-200-signals-20280.html
-
User Experience As A Ranking Signal Is Currently Only For Mobile Results Not Desktopshttp://searchengineland.com/google-user-experience-as-a-ranking-signal-is-currently-only-for-mobile-results-not-desktop-results-220719
-
On Page and Off Page factorshttp://searchengineland.com/seotable/
-
there are no Google algorithms that specifically look at user actions on your web site and use that as a ranking factor."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-user-actions-not-ranking-factor-20741.html
-
"These factors ...show the characteristics of web pages that tend to rank higher."https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
-
"Google and Bing still look at a bunch of different attributes about a link to determine the relative value that it might have.https://moz.com/blog/20-attributes-influence-link-value-whiteboard-friday
-
Mueller of Google says, "Links from your site to other people’s sites isn’t specifically a ranking factor"https://www.seroundtable.com/google-says-outbound-links-are-not-a-ranking-factor-21545.html
-
" ... content evaluation factors that Google is almost certainly looking at"https://moz.com/blog/google-may-analyze-evaluate-quality-content-whiteboard-friday
-
"what people you’re connected to recommend could be used to impact your rankings"http://www.websearchguide.ca/google-ranking-algorithms-2/
-
http://searchengineland.com/google-uses-machine-learning-search-algorithms-261158
-
Gary Illyes"... links translate in some sense to popularity and endorsement by others."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-external-links-22980.html
-
http://pages.searchmetrics.com/rs/656-KWJ-035/images/Whitepaper-Searchmetrics-Rebooting-Ranking-Factors-US.PDF
-
"content relevance and user focus are replacing checklist ranking factors"http://pages.searchmetrics.com/rs/656-KWJ-035/images/Whitepaper-Searchmetrics-Rebooting-Ranking-Factors-US.PDF
-
Source - Search Engine Watchhttps://searchenginewatch.com/2017/10/27/an-in-depth-guide-to-google-ranking-factors/
-
John Mueller also said that "we use so many factors for ranking, it really depends on a lot of things."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-no-top-three-search-ranking-signals-24475.html
-
Look at: Domain factors, Page-level factors, Backlink factorshttps://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/200-seo-factors-that-could-affect-your-position-on-google-infographic/518551/
-
Keywords and location, backlinks, webpage authorityhttps://www.scripted.com/digital-marketing/courses/google-facebook-measure-quality-content
-
Links = Authorityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfLaC325S6M
-
It is probably still one of the most important aspects of Google's rankings with content and relevancy.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-yes-pagerank-still-matters-22469.html
-
"March 2016: Google Senior Search Quality Strategist Andrey Lipattsev confirms that content and links are the first and second ghttps://moz.com/blog/state-of-links?
-
See links at the end of the article; they provide sources that support the article's intent.https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-ranking-facts/196223/
-
"The steps involved in working towards making a website authoritative" ... Emphasis on keywordshttp://www.seobythesea.com/2017/05/how-does-google-look-for-authoritative-search-results/
-
Review: Domain factors, Page-level factors, Site-level factors, Backlink factorshttps://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/200-seo-factors-that-could-affect-your-position-on-google-infographic/518551/
-
Lists Primary Reference Sourceshttps://zyppy.com/seo-success-factors/
-
Google uses keyword data within the URL to determine what the page is about.https://www.searchenginejournal.com/23-potential-ranking-factors-you-may-not-be-considering/264697/
-
.edu, .gov, .org ... etchttps://www.searchenginejournal.com/types-of-links/261581/
-
Facts are "not something that we are using in our rankings."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fact-ranking-not-happening-19979.html
-
"Google may want to rank the page with the fewest false facts the highest." Knowledge-Based Trust (KBT)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fact-rank-19947.html
-
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-to-index-mobile-pages-separately-from-desktop-2016-10
-
Mobile index: “primary” index that the search engine uses to respond to querieshttp://searchengineland.com/google-divide-index-giving-mobile-users-better-fresher-content-261037
-
Google currently doesn’t look at UX signals for ranking.http://searchengineland.com/google-user-experience-as-a-ranking-signal-is-currently-only-for-mobile-results-not-desktop-results-220719
-
"local intent queries will show the local pack and more localized organic results."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-signals-query-dependent-23518.html
-
"Broad picture signals of what it takes to get your website to rank: relevancy, popularity, & authority."https://www.theedesign.com/blog/2018/get-website-rank-google-search-one
-
"Part Two will get into the nitty-gritty details of what it takes to rank."https://www.theedesign.com/blog/2018/get-website-rank-google-search-two
-
top three list: links, content and RankBrain.http://searchengineland.com/now-know-googles-top-three-search-ranking-factors-245882
-
"RankBrain is Google’s name for a machine-learning artificial intelligence system that’s used to help process its search resultshttp://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-rankbrain-algorithm-234440
-
"RankBrain is a query interpretation model. it's going to try & determine the query's intent & make the ranking signals that arhttps://moz.com/blog/optimizing-for-rankbrain-whiteboard-friday
-
"Google Rank Brain searches for the phrase in its database related to that word and helps in finding accurate results."https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/c2028fdc-41fe-4493-8257-33a59069fa04/entry/How_to_Understand_the_Google_Rank_Brain_Search_Engine_Algorithms_Tips_to_Ace_it?lang=en
-
"Words determine site & page meaning & relevancy. URLs, Title Tags, Meta Description, H1 tags, Internal Linking, Anchor Text, Inhttps://disqus.com/by/MincoLesharo/
-
"Google's John Mueller told SEOs again that keywords in the URL is a small ranking factor in Google's search ranking algorithm."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-keywords-in-urls-overrated-23525.html
-
Links!https://www.link-assistant.com/news/ranking-factors.html
-
PageRank (a measure of link quality) = Reputation and Authority; Popularity is where people go.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfLaC325S6M
-
Google is tweaking its algorithm to judge on the quality of those links.http://searchengineland.com/new-unconfirmed-google-fred-update-shakes-seo-world-270898
-
# 3 - Link anchorhttps://www.link-assistant.com/news/ranking-factors.html
-
"anchor text helps us [Google] quite a bit in understanding context"https://www.seroundtable.com/google-anchor-text-image-alt-text-23856.html
-
"anchor text ... contains the most important points on the page."https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-link-hyperlink-seo
-
" ... there is no direct and clear connection between user experience and ranking ..."https://www.sistrix.com/blog/is-user-experience-a-ranking-factor/
-
Google's John Mueller: the page title tag is not as critical for ranking than the content on the page.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-tag-critical-21499.html
-
"improvement to the algorithm ... always goes through a process of rigorous scientific testing."http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-look-under-hood-of-search.html
-
"short history of the evolution of search, highlighting the most important milestones"http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/evolution-of-search-in-six-minutes.html
-
Inforgraphic format - Very well donehttp://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/
-
Matt Cutts talks about patents and Google's algorithm.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-patent-search-algorithm-17761.html
-
RankBrain is used to interpret the searches to find pages that might not have the exact words searched for.https://plus.google.com/explore/RankBrain
-
See videohttp://bloom.bg/1O6yQTp
-
"The Google app is starting to truly understand the meaning of what you’re asking."http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-google-app-now-understands-you.html
-
Google attempt "to understand ambiguous queries better."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-rankbrain-21095.html
-
"RankBrain uses links ... to try to optimize the rankings based on better understanding the search query."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-rankbrain-links-21781.html
-
"Google's Paul Haahr said Google doesn't fully understand RankBrain."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-dont-understand-rankbrain-21744.html
-
"RB doesn't add new ranking signals but based on the query, it may weigh the existing signals differently."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-rankbrain-new-ranking-signals-21797.html
-
See: "7. If this, then that" for useful description of RankBrains operationhttps://moz.com/blog/google-may-analyze-evaluate-quality-content-whiteboard-friday
-
"You cannot optimize for RankBrain and there is no RankBrain score."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-no-rankbrain-score-no-seo-22282.html
-
" RankBrain is considered the most useful search ranking signal, behind content and links."http://searchengineland.com/google-loves-rankbrain-uses-for-every-search-252526
-
"RankBrain is part of Google’s overall search algorithm.http://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-rankbrain-algorithm-234440
-
"RankBrain now applies to all queries"http://www.websearchguide.ca/google-ranking-algorithms-2/
-
https://www.brightlocal.com/2016/11/04/google-rankbrain-101-essential-rankbrain-strategies/
-
"We want to build a personal Google for every user."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ai-world-23000.html
-
AI is working!http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/12/23/study-finds-google-search-results-are-more-relevant-ever
-
"RankBrain is Google’s name for a machine-learning artificial intelligence system that’s used to help process its search resultshttp://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-rankbrain-algorithm-234440
-
"primer explaining how entity search works & how Google uses RankBrain to make it better"http://searchengineland.com/rankbrain-changes-entity-search-234345
-
"A machine-learning AI is handling a large fraction of Google's search queries."http://searchengineland.com/meet-rankbrain-google-search-results-234386
-
"RankBrain Is Part Of Google’s Hummingbird Search Algorithm"http://searchengineland.com/faq-all-about-the-new-google-rankbrain-algorithm-234440
-
"Links, content & RankBrain are the top three ranking signals in Google's search algorithm."http://searchengineland.com/now-know-googles-top-three-search-ranking-factors-245882
-
Periodic Table of Google ranking factorshttp://searchengineland.com/seotable
-
Companion guide designed to explain the Periodic Table of SEO Success Factorshttp://searchengineland.com/guide/seo
-
https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed
-
2007 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communicationhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/bar-ilan.html
-
Defines and explains the function of a CAPTCHAhttp://www.captcha.net
-
Google policy ... includes exampleshttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
-
"“the activity of designing links that bias search engine results to create an inaccurate impression of the search target”http://userpages.umbc.edu/~pete5/ir_paper.pdf
-
Google "best practices"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
-
Interactive presentationhttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/index.html
-
Online coursehttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6023933?hl=en&ref_topic=6001171&rd=1
-
Google guidancehttps://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en
-
Google can change the title that appears in the results from the webpage title.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlJiLDn9-38
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyCYyoGusqs
-
It is an estimate; "3 significant digits of precision"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix3mHeL7hg
-
"links will continue to be used to assess the reputation of a site."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC5FDzUh0P4
-
"Patents have no direct influence on the algorithms."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-patent-search-algorithm-17761.html
-
Infographichttp://trends.e-strategyblog.com/2012/12/03/2012-google-search-engine-ranking-factors-infographic/5849
-
Read first! Source: Google Blogspothttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html
-
"Google has over 200 signals and many of them have more than 50 variations within a single factor."http://searchengineland.com/bing-10000-ranking-signals-google-55473
-
Conclusion: Social Metrics are Well Correlated with Higher Rankingshttp://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings
-
PageRank: objective measure of webpage importance ``by solving equation of more than 500 million variables & 2 billion terms``http://www.bruceclay.com/cgi-bin/seinfo400.cgi?se=google
-
Organic, News, Blogs, etc ....http://www.stateofsearch.com/google-universal-ranking-factors-an-overview-of-resources/
-
"Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."http://www.seobook.com/google-branding
-
Google's search quality process: ``There are more than 100 signals the [Google] uses to determine the order of search results.``http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9972034-7.html
-
``a quick primer on how we crawl and index the web and then rank search results.``http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0512_01.html
-
PageRank algorithm, content of pages, placement of words on a page, content of neighboring pages,http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article3.html
-
``Google does not use real usage data to tune their search ranking algorithm.``http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/how-google-measures-search-quality.html
-
Note use of "may consider" and "might consider; " Google tested > 6000 changes to algorithm in 2010, 500 became permanenthttp://www.seobythesea.com/?p=5325
-
``In addition, [we] have 10,000 human evaluators who are always manually checking the relevance of various results.`` (7th Q&A)http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/06/26/GoogleScalabilityConferenceTripReportScalingGoogleForEveryUser.aspx
-
How Google ranking algorithm workshttp://searchengineland.com/schmidt-listing-googles-200-ranking-factors-would-reveal-business-secrets-51065
-
Describes the two-URL limit per each set of 10 results that applies to domainshttp://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
-
Analysis of queries highlight weaknesses; then we go and change the general algorithmhttp://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-udi-manber.shtml
-
"Your stature on Twitter could help influence how a page ranks in web search."http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389
-
"PageRank is not a measure of popularity."http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pagerank-authority-topics-18353.html
-
Effects on Qualityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCY30WhI2og
-
The # of results may increase as complexity of search increases because Google works harder to find results.http://searchengineland.com/why-google-cant-count-results-properly-53559
-
It is probably still one of the most important aspects of Google's rankings with content and relevancy.https://www.seroundtable.com/google-yes-pagerank-still-matters-22469.html
-
Interviews and articles on the ways team members evaluate Google’s search rankingshttp://searchengineland.com/businessweek-dives-deep-into-googles-search-quality-27317
-
CEO Eric Schmidt: why search remains Google's priorityhttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2009/tc2009102_694444.htm
-
Article on engineers and scientists know as the search quality grouphttp://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_41/b4150044749206.htm
-
Insight into how Google’s core search quality team workshttp://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/googles_udi_man.html
-
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/google_search_g.html
-
http://www.conductor.com/blog/2012/03/wikipedia-in-the-serps-appears-on-page-1-for-60-of-informational-34-transactional-queries/
-
http://searchengineland.com/wikipedia-appears-on-googles-page-one-only-46-of-time-study-shows-116060
-
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2163432/3-More-Studies-Examine-Wikipedias-Page-1-Google-Rankings
-
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2152194/Wikipedia-Appears-on-Page-1-of-Google-for-99-of-Searches-Study
-
http://www.intelligentpositioning.com/blog/2012/02/wikipedia-page-one-of-google-uk-for-99-of-searches/
-
But what explains Wikipedia's top ranking? "Wikipedia does a good job at getting links to internal pages."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-wikipedia-special-ranking-treatment-23157.html
-
" ... people are very likely to link to individual Wikipedia pages, internal pages within Wikipedia versus the home page."https://www.seroundtable.com/google-wikipedia-internal-links-22916.html
-
``According to the official Google documentation, Google is not case sensitive.``http://searchengineland.com/080620-081736.php
-
Google bombing campaign by manipulation of anchor texthttp://searchengineland.com/070420-121152.php
-
`` detailed look at the mechanics of using anchor text as a relevancy signal for a page being linked to, by the search engine.``http://searchengineland.com/071211-153013.php
-
``anchor text in hyperlinks pointing to pages can influence what a page may rank for in search results``http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=929
-
``Google offers various advanced search options, but its general policy is to use its single search box for everything.``http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9972034-7.html
-
Explore a wide range of Google Search featureshttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/features.html#
-
Useful search optionshttp://www.simplyzesty.com/google/30-ways-to-turn-yourself-into-a-google-search-pro/#
-
Anchor text refers to the visible, clickable words used to link one web page to another.https://ahrefs.com/blog/anchor-text/
-
6 uses of anchor text searchinghttps://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2181585/link-prospectors-guide-inanchor-search-operator
-
The inanchor operator searches the anchor of a link, and not the actual URL.https://google-expert-tips.blogspot.com/2009/10/inanchor-google-operator.html
-
Posted by Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Qualityhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html
-
Does Google manually edit its results? ``No manual intervention.``http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction-to-google-ranking.html
-
Goal is to understand: Pages, Queries, and Userhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html
-
Evaluation = ``measuring the quality of our search results & our users` experience with search.``http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/search-evaluation-at-google.html
-
"White Paper was commissioned by Google, but the views within it should not necessarily be ascribed to Google."http://volokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/SearchEngineFirstAmendment.pdf
-
Investigating "how the Google generation searches for information & the implications for the country's colleges"http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/googlegen.aspx
-
Turns Google into a near real-time search enginehttp://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/the-return-of-the-url-hack-finding-googles-really-recently-indexed-content/
-
Video presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrillhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtgSkmDnbQ
-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7e3AR2k0foM
-
``Last year we made over 450 improvements to the algorithm.``http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4259137.html
-
1999 Interviewhttp://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/09/googles_first_steps.html
-
Article Focus: Linkshttp://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
-
Short non-technical article from Google`s Librarian Centralhttp://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0512_01.html
-
http://www.microsoft-watch.org/cgi-bin/ranking.htm
-
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagerank-link-patterns-the-new-flow-of-link-juice
-
Visual display of PageRankhttp://searchengineland.com/070508-152900.php
-
Technical Articlehttp://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/index.html
-
Review Nike and Zappos for Shoes section for ``the relevancy of words``http://searchengineland.com/070426-011828.php
-
http://www.stonetemple.com/blog/?p=173
-
Google's "Domain Preference" for Wikipediahttp://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/googles-new-algorithm-ifdomainwikipediaorgrank1/
-
Discusses .edu and .gov and that they do not automatically improve PRhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it/
-
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-pagerank-works-why-the-original-pr-formula-may-be-flawed
-
"explains how Google determines trusted sites & elaborates on the factors in detail including the PageRank algorithm"http://www.pandia.com/sew/1012-google-page-rank.html
-
Long article explaining Google's PageRankhttp://searchengineland.com/what-is-google-pagerank-a-guide-for-searchers-webmasters-11068
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zupIbMyMfBI
-
"ageRank is what “looks at links between pages to determine their relevance.”http://searchengineland.com/what-is-google-pagerank-a-guide-for-searchers-webmasters-11068
-
PageRank (PR) is the “value of a page” by looking at the quantity & quality of pages that link to it.https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-pagerank/
-
http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-maile-ohye.shtml
-
Director of Product Management for Google Localhttp://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-carter-maslan.shtml
-
Head of the Webspam teamhttp://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-061608.shtml
-
Group Product Managerhttp://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-dick-costolo.shtml
-
SEO Strategisthttp://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-adam-lasnik-012408.shtml
-
Marissa Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Googlehttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/marissa-mayer-on-charlie-rose-the-future-of-google/
-
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/07/eric-schmidt-tells-charlie-rose-google-is-unlikely-to-buy-twitter-and-wants-to-turn-phones-into-tvs/
-
'09: "Wouldn't it be nice if Google understood the meaning of your phrase?"http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_and_semantic_web/google_ceo_hints_at_semantic_contextual_search.html
-
Investor conference interviewhttp://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/17/fresh-evidence-that-search-is-still-competitive-not-so-fast/
-
Matt Cutts, Amit Senghal, and Ben Gomes oversee Google’s search algorithmhttp://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-googles-search-office.html
-
http://mashable.com/2012/02/13/google-knowledge-graph-change-search/
-
http://www.seoinhouse.com/matt-cutts-videos/
-
"Search engines are still at the information stage. Our objective is to make this a source of knowledge for our users."http://www.standard.co.uk/news/techandgadgets/the-human-search-engine-7315344.html
-
Interviews and articles on the ways team members evaluate Google’s search rankingshttp://searchengineland.com/businessweek-dives-deep-into-googles-search-quality-27317
-
CEO Eric Schmidt: why search remains its priorityhttp://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2009/tc2009102_694444.htm
-
Article on engineers and scientists know as the search quality grouphttp://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_41/b4150044749206.htm
-
Insight into how Google’s core search quality team workshttp://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/googles_udi_man.html
-
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/10/google_search_g.html
-
Matt Cutts, Amit Senghal, and Ben Gomeshttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/inside-googles-search-office.html
-
How Google improves the algorithmnhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-look-under-hood-of-search.html
-
"time as a dimension of ranking pages"http://tinyurl.com/cvmq5
-
http://tinyurl.com/ynkl47
-
http://tinyurl.com/23x4el
-
http://tinyurl.com/27sk9a
-
http://tinyurl.com/yqgfg2
-
Synonymshttp://tinyurl.com/y9ga67p
-
Using site visit stats to rank resultshttp://tinyurl.com/3tcp78h
-
"Overstock provided discounts to products in exchange for links (with specific anchor text to specific URLs) from .edu sites."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704520504576162753779521700.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
-
"“There was a period of time in the past when Forbes did sell links through a partner."http://searchengineland.com/googles-action-against-link-schemes-continues-overstock-com-and-forbes-com-latest-casualities-conductor-exits-business-65926
-
"thousands of seemingly unrelated web sites (many that seemed to contain only links) were linking to the J.C. Penney web site."http://searchengineland.com/new-york-times-exposes-j-c-penney-link-scheme-that-causes-plummeting-rankings-in-google-64529
-
"Google had detected previous guidelines violations related to JCPenney.com."http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
-
Kojo Mamdi show on WAMU (Washington)http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-02-22/gaming-your-google-search
-
http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.sg/2014/06/8-surprising-things-i-learnt-about.html
-
"newsletter is to inform about the latest scientific studies concerning Google Scholar as a source and tool for scientific evaluhttp://googlescholardigest.blogspot.com.es/p/about.html
-
Checks the Google PageRank values for a list of URLshttp://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php
-
Checks the ranking of a webpage in Googlehttp://www.googlerankings.com/
-
Enter words, names, or phrases to determine which one occurs on more webpageshttp://www.googleduel.com/original.php
-
Enter names and adjectives to determine who`s tops for the adjectiveshttp://www.googleduel.com/googlebusinessmain.php
-
Queries multiple datacentershttp://www.bad-neighborhood.com/google-multidc-rank-check.htm
-
"expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness"http://www.thesempost.com/google-rewrites-quality-rating-guide-seos-need-know/
-
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2355230/Google-Search-Quality-Guidelines-Now-Reward-Expertise-Authority-Trust
-
Source - Google Bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html
-
November 2015 Editionhttps://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//insidesearch/howsearchworks/assets/searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
-
Interactive infographichttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/
-
Change the site and d/w/y parameterhttp://searchengineland.com/070831-093959.php
-
Tutorial on how to searchhttp://www.googleguide.com/pdf/googleguide.pdf
-
No change since 2013https://www.seroundtable.com/google-15-percent-queries-25730.html
-
http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html
-
http://www.soople.com/
-
http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi
-
http://www.staggernation.com/garbo/
-
http://babelplex.com/
-
Tag-Cloud technique and Topic-Mapping features for results identificationhttp://deeperweb.com/
-
``We are at the age of Google.``http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google.html
-
``Because of Google, the diverse standards to rank the relevancy of information on the Web converged.``http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-2-open-sesame.html
-
``Google and Web 2.0 are twins.``http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-3-web-20.html
-
``three major negative impacts Google``http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-4-future.html
-
People have lower rates of recall of the information itself.http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~wegner/pdfs/science.1207745.full.pdf
-
http://www.gahooyoogle.com
-
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
-
http://www.pandia.com/sew/526-touchgraph.html
-
http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html
-
Replaced Google Zeitgeisthttp://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
-
Daily list of hot search queries; note number of words per queryhttp://www.google.com/trends
-
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
-
http://searchengineland.com/070622-085337.php
-
Clarification of 25% figure: ``ballpark estimate``http://searchengineland.com/070629-143949.php
-
Review of study analyzing user behavior within Google search resultshttp://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623689
-
``Compare seasonal trends, geographic distributions, and category-specific searches`` to understand searcher behavior.http://google.com/insights/search/#
-
Sites selected from Googlehttp://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/index.html
-
23 Search Behavior Statshttps://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed
-
Source: Blogoscopedhttp://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-04-13-n13.html
-
Link Directory of Important Google Informationhttp://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001208.html
-
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/download-googles-help-files.html
-
How Search Engines are Trustedhttp://www.edelman.com/post/intellectual-property-trust-age-digital-media/
-
"Search engines (read: Google) have overtaken traditional media as the most trusted source of news globally."http://searchengineland.com/google-overtakes-traditonal-media-become-trusted-source-news-online-213176
-
Read first!http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/04/06/wolframalpha-searching-truth/
-
Users Guidehttp://hplusmagazine.com/2009/06/24/users-guide-wolframalpha/
-
Exampleshttp://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/
-
Video introhttp://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
-
"Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about."https://googleblog.blogspot.in/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html
-
"Knowledge Graph is its own pool of data, where all the information is collected from authoritative sites."http://www.convinceandconvert.com/digital-marketing/google-knowledge-graph/
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFOinOXGC2M
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQl6VGvX-c
-
" ML-based AI systems learn to be clever."http://www.extremenetworks.com/google-explains-machine-learning-deep-learning-plus-short-takes-educause-2016/
-
"The Knowledge Graph is the engine that powers the panel that’s officially called the Knowledge Graph Card."https://yoast.com/google-knowledge-graph/
-
DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence acquired by Google in 2014.https://deepmind.com/
-
"The F-shaped scanning pattern is alive and well in today’s world — both on desktop and on mobile."https://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content/
-
Laura Granka - Authorhttps://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/34378.pdf
-
("[T]he Court concludes that Google's PageRanks are entitled to 'full constitutional protection.' "https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18125879/search-neutrality-google-bias-seo-rigged-sundar-pichai-congress-eu
-
Search King cited 27 times.https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3107&context=clr
-
"[A] Page Rank is an opinion - an opinion of the significance of a particular web site as it corresponds to a search query."http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case337.cfm
-
Court filinghttp://www.internetlibrary.com/pdf/Search-King-Google-WD-Okla.pdf