This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. – Ed.We’ve learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. [...]
Archive for February 4th, 2010
Announcing Google’s Focused Research Awards
(Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog)
It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve [...]
Wrapping up our Free Holiday WiFi program
In November, we officially launched our Free Holiday WiFi gift. 54 airports, one airline and many millions of connected WiFi users later, our two-month Free Holiday WiFi sponsorship ended on January 15. We’re happy to have made this year’s holiday travel season just a bit easier for the millions of people who logged on and [...]
Late state evaluation
Obama Girl (Amber Lee Ettinger) has been in the media, saying she’s a bit disappointed in the President, giving him a “B-minus” grade. She is still hopeful. Maybe if he invites her for a beer.
Queasy at the thought of watching the “State of the Union,” I resorted to reading the NY Times’s transcript. [...]


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