This page contains some news quotes about Google for year 2003.
Google Patents and Patent Applications
Google Labs: Search by Location
Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files (6,658,423)
December 2, 2003
"Improved duplicate and near-duplicate detection techniques may assign a number of fingerprints to a given document by (i) extracting parts from the document, (ii) assigning the extracted parts to one or more of a predetermined number of lists, and (iii) generating a fingerprint from each of the populated lists. Two documents may be considered to be near-duplicates if any one of their fingerprints match."
Detecting query-specific duplicate documents (6,615,209)
September 2, 2003
"An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as "snippets") is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity."
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query (6,529,903)
March 4, 2003
"A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results."
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity (6,526,440)
February 25, 2003
"A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching a user's search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component in the search engine then refines the initially returned document rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less frequently cited within the initial set."
More Google: Fan Logos
(December 25, 2003)
http://www.google.com/customlogos.html
Google Introduces Book Searches
December 17, 2003
"Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books"
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3290351
Google Print:
http://services.google.com/print/info
Example:
http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0385476876
Google Web Search Features
(December 11, 2003)
"See delays and weather conditions at a particular airport. -- type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport.""
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#travel
Example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sfo+airport
Google Web Search Features
(December 11, 2003)
"Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#number
Examples:
FedEx tracking numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=fedex+999999999999
Patent numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+5123123
FAA airplane registration numbers
http://www.google.com/search?q=n199ua
FCC equipment IDs
http://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+B4Z-34009-PIR
Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again
December 1, 2003
"Specifically, Google Watch's Daniel Brandt discovered that including a made-up word as part of your search may cause Google to show radically different results. Since his original post at WebmasterWorld.com, hundreds if not thousands of site owners have tried this test. Based on their reports, the "filter test," as it has become known, seems to show how Google previously had ranked things."
"Here's an example of the filter test in action and why it works."
"Search for laptop rentals. You'll get thousands of matches, telling you that Google knows of plenty of web pages that contain both of those words on them."
"Search for laptop rentals dhdhdhdhdh. You'll get no matches, telling you that Google knows of no web pages that contain all three words. We already know from step 1 that there are plenty of pages that contain the words laptop and rentals. So, it's really dhdhdhdhdh that doesn't exist on any of these pages."
"Search for laptop rentals -dhdhdhdhdh. This should bring back exactly the same results as the search for laptop rentals. That's because we are asking for all pages that contain both laptop and rentals on them (which we know exist from step 1) but commanding Google to exclude any pages that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh with the -dhdhdhdhdh part of our query. Since we know from step 2 that there are no pages with laptop and rentals on them that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh, we should get the same results as step 1. Instead we get much different listings."
"Why does this happen? One popular theory is that Google is using a new "filter" to prescreen results for "money words," searches where it hopes to sell its AdWords paid listings. You can understand the popularity of this theory by looking at the before and after for that search on laptop rentals. Before, you get mostly businesses that appear to specialize in laptop rentals. After, these are all gone -- replaced by mostly university web sites that talk about laptop rental programs for students."
"Ah ha! Well, more like hmmm. The complication is that there are plenty of exceptions. There are some people who DID run ads before the change who still found they lost "free" rankings. There are also people who maintained their top free rankings after the change despite the fact that they never bought ads. Moreover, the changes have had positive and negative impacts on all types of sites. "Big" sites did not necessarily trump over "mom and pops.""
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3114531
Florida Google Dance Resources
December 5, 2003
"This page summarizes articles from Search Engine Watch and resources from elsewhere that pertain to major changes to Google's search algorithm that happened in November and December 2003. "Florida" is the nickname that's been given to this particular wave of changes known as the Google Dance."
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3285661
Google Dance 2003
(November 29, 2003)
http://www.google.com/googledance2003/
Google Deskbar
(November 6, 2003)
"Search using Google, even when your browser isn't running"
"Preview search results in a small inset window that closes automatically"
http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html
Search by Location
(September 22, 2003)
http://labs.google.com/location
Google Web Search Features
(September 20, 2003)
"To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions
Example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:World+Wide+Web
Google Toolbar
(August 13, 2003)
Google Toolbar 2.0 has new options: Popup Blocker, AutoFill, BlogThis, Country Search.
Google Calculator
(August 13, 2003)
"To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary."
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
Advanced Search Made Easy
(August 7, 2003)
"You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword."
http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
Google News Alerts (BETA)
(August 5, 2003)
"Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify."
http://www.google.com/newsalerts
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