Bill Slawski
Recent Posts by Bill Slawski
Local Query Suggestions Based Upon Where People Search
People search from many different places, and the things that they search for at some...
How Google May Associate Images with Search Results
How Images Maybe Chosen for Search Results A few years ago, some former employees of...
Caffeine: Google’s Indexer
Google search engine updates are often mysterious events, but sometimes I come across information in...
Better Organic Search Results at Google Involving Geographic Location Queries
Has Google gotten better at organic search results involving location queries? I first started looking...
Google to Use Environmental Information in Queries
At the beginning of 2015, I wrote about a patent that told us it would...
Did the Groundhog Update Just Take Place at Google?
A story that ran at Search Engine Land a few days ago informed us of...
How Google May Identify Device Locations Using Magnetic Fields from AC Powerlines
The Value of Knowing Location of Searchers to a Search Engine There are many reasons...
Google to Extract Keywords from Image Text?
Might Google Extract Keywords from Image Text? A couple of years ago, I asked the...
Semantic Topic Modeling for Search Queries at Google
What is Semantic Topic Modeling? I came across some interesting papers at the Google Research...
Google’s High Quality Sites Patent
You may recognize the names of one of the inventors of the patent I am...