Postini looks back on 2007

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 @ 2:24 am

Posted by Adam Swidler, Product
Marketing Manager, Postini

For years now, anti-spam efforts have been like a game of checkers
played at night. The bad guys make their move, Postini responds,
and the majority of our customers are pleasantly oblivious to the
fact that as much as 90 percent of their incoming mail is spam.
This year, it became a game of chess. Data from Postini data
centers shows that virus attacks hit record levels, spam
percentages in Europe are catching up with global trends, and the
volume of spam became more volatile as spammers dramatically varied
their tactics, as seen in this graph:

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To find out what made 2007 really different from any earlier year,
and to see some forecasts for 2008, check out the the href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/12/1-billion-messages-not-served.html" >
Google Enterprise blog.

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Why should we attend all sorts of meetings

Filed under: Google Blackboard — Wrote by Lees on Monday, March 31st, 2008 @ 8:02 am

The person that publish: Adam Lasnik, the person that search preach
Reprint fromAdministrator of website of cereal song Chinese rich guest

Textual:
Why We Attend Conferences

Publish at: On May 23, 2007, on Wednesday, afternoon 4: 17

My all along likes a trip, but do not like too by air, consider this just about, I often take intercity bus to go out row, even if is business trip not exceptional also. But, the culture with interesting understanding is anecdotical, enjoy new friend of each district cate and associate with, the life that all all these can let me more rich and colorful. Even if is a few little detail- - be in Sydney for example, does “How are You Going say when people says hello to? “, the driveway should lean in England left- - going everywhere is such far making a person think of near to want.

A delegate that searchs quality group as Gu Ge, I often listen to friends to ridicule so I: “Is journey certain very bumpy? “Actually I do not feel open-eyed. However, active role is being acted on these conferences always can not be so honorable and satisfied.

From here, you can peep real world:

* occasionally (thank heaven, still do not calculate much) the ” human body that I became audience gives inflator ” .
Why does * suspend ” pushbutton without ” on my company mailbox and individual mailbox? Left weak point conference of a few days, piled up a pile of big email that wants processing!
* conveniently says, is those who cannot find WIFI to be received embarrassed what to calculate? My jotter had assembled Verizon broadband to get online [Sic] , but result or… help!
* attends the conference to need ” of many ” additional time. I special contrariwise hopes to be every time conference design demonstrates PPT brand-newly, and be coordinated actively each other with Gu Ge speechmaker of the person of the same trade, but finally, the additional information that what I collect from the conference always is one train wagon (very valuable but very time-consuming also) . Be united in wedlock this and in front relates email problem, I was calculated, the meeting that every attend one day prepares with respect to the time that needs expenditure 5 days, analyse and carry out.

But, the reason that why I still like to attend the meeting is below:

* I can from acquire over there other speechmaker a lot of. Travel together with what come from other search engine or when expert chitchat, I often think- - hey, this information is very useful, perhaps be a kind of particularly thought-provoking explanation method then. Make a speech on congress, I still am a novice, so I each water that engulf of this sponge place comes to can be helped somewhat!
* SEO and stationmaster people it is to exceed interesting weapon commonly. : -: -
* although my may not always has time to work so, but can squeezing an a few time to ramble in these cities always is pretty good. Of course, holy He Sai cannot calculate, because it is next to Gu Ge’s headquarters. But, I already ground of too impatient to wait thinks of Toronto to have a look, (and the time that spends on a few days to belong to myself to Montreal before this likely. )
* I from the head of a station that with me chitchat passes people over there acquired rife thing. I can return work in the same placing now over there, say to them: “Hey, our algorithm wants to be made in these respects improve ” , or ” they are the stationmaster guidelines that understand us so, the tool that these challenges are us only then expect do not ” etc. Our topic is not confined to a search; Do about Gmail, calendar and cereal song place almost each thing, I heard the deep thought of full ear, at the same time I also will exhaust the person of the colleague that can send word to these feedback me and other department.
* is final, chat face-to-face with a few people special conduce to me comprehending them from brand-new perspective online communication meaning. Read the script on the webpage very easily by accident occasionally, especially you raise question at that time without the opportunity. And face-to-face communication can say the problem very lucidly, have profit to everybody so.

What what I hope is, delegate cereal song and stationmaster people the person that demonstrate face-to-face and chats is more than I am one, otherwise I am met certainly tired dead, and you also are met by me of stifle. From inside the list below, everybody can see, we ” of these ” meeting insect formed a group really. From this month (translator notes: 2007 year in May. All time all are under 2007) case till June, the work in the same placing of group of quality of cereal song search and center center still will hold below a few conferences:

Search engine strategy
- Chinese Xiamen - in May 25, 26 to - 30 days

* Zhu Jian flies (software engineer) : Why you by cutout?

Search engine strategy
- Italian Milan - in May day of 29 - 30

* Brian White (technical project manager)
* Luisella Mazza (search quality analyst)
* Stefano Bezze (search quality assistant manager)

Beautiful state-operated sells set of association heat topic
- Newyork city of new York state, - on May 25

* Maile Ohye (senior developer supports an engineer) : Search engine sale

Cereal song developer day - why does California emperor fill in (place former on Shan Jingcheng) - on May 31

* Jonathan Simon (stationmaster trend analyst)
* Maile Ohye (senior developer supports an engineer)

Search sale is advanced exhibition
- Washington city Xi Yatu - will come 5 days on June 4

* Matt Cutts (software engineer) : You and audience, personalized search and chasten box
* Vanessa Fox (manager of center center product) : Repeat content

Search engine strategy
- Canadian Toronto - in June 12 to 13 days

* Adam Lasnik: Friendly model search engine design and the worst SEO myth, contraindication and fraud

Search economics - carat of California city emperor helps a county - on June 27

* Shashi Thakur (software engineer) : Friendly model search engine design
* Greg Grothaus (software engineer) : The network is the search of 2 edition, dynamic Web site and SEO

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We look forward to can undertake communicating face-to-face with more people in you. Even if you cannot or the meeting that does not want to attend us personally, we welcome everybody to offer problem, proposal as before, even if be in ourStationmaster helps discussion groupOne is done in
Friendly self introduction
Go.

Everybody is taken care of, no matter your online take you to He Fang with journey leaving a line, wish everybody spends a happy summer.

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Collect, share, and discover books

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Friday, December 7th, 2007 @ 10:35 pm

Posted by Adam Mathes, Product
Manager

Books often live a vibrant life offline, and through digitization
Google Book Search tries to help them live an even more exciting
life online through full text search. Today we're launching
some new features that go beyond search so you can collect, share,
and discover new books.

To start, you can create your own personal collection on Book
Search, and use it to help find just the right book from your
collection for any occasion. Other people can view your library, so
you can share your collection href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-own-library-on-book-search.html" >
as Bethany has done. Or take a look at some href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/mylibrary/" >other
interesting collections.

Digitized text is useful beyond search, too. It enables us to infer
connections between books through shared passages. For example, href="http://books.google.com/books?id=F201AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158&sig=MRlRSfXVKcRYQGwql0xrCKdbahk&source=gbs_quot&vq="Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, I don't know what I may seem to the world; but"" >
Sir Isaac Newton once said:

I know not what I may
appear to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing
on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a
smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean
of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

This quote has resonated and href="http://books.google.com/books?id=F201AAAAMAAJ&qtid=37e78a8" >
been used in hundreds of books from the early 1800s to 2007.
You can discover connections between books through quotations like
this in a feature we call "Popular passages." Read more
and href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/09/dive-into-meme-pool-with-google-book.html" >
dive into the meme pool.

We've also launched a way to let users, select, copy and embed
segments of public domain books (like the Newton quote) in any web
page. We hope to make it as easy to blog and quote from a book as
it is from any web page. Like many innovations at Google, a stellar
href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/08/share-and-enjoy.html" >summer
intern worked on this .

We hope these new features help you discover, collect, and share
some of the great truths just waiting to be discovered (or maybe
re-discovered) in the great ocean of books before us. height="1" width="1" />

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Putting health into the patient’s hands

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

Posted by Adam Bosworth, Vice
President

I gave a speech today at the 2007 American Medical Association of
Informatics (AMIA) Spring Congress. I used this opportunity to
suggest a vision of what I think consumers should expect from our
health care system over the next decade, including three core
principles of a future health care system:

Discovery - Consumers
should be able to discover the most relevant health information
possible

Action - Consumers
should have direct access to personalized services to help them get
the best and most convenient possible health support

Community - Consumers
should be able to learn from and educate those in similar health
circumstances and from their health practitioners

Here are my href="http://services.google.com/blog_resources/Bosworth_AMIA_May07.pdf" >
notes from the speech, which include both an example of how
these principles could come together to improve health care and
suggestions about what core technology I believe is needed to
support them.

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Discovering hard-to-find books

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

Posted by Adam Smith, Senior Business
Product Manager, Google Print

Tomorrow is the day we said we'd resume scanning in-copyright
works with our library partners as part of our initiative to build
a card catalog of books with href="http://print.google.com/" >Google Print. We are in the
process of resuming scanning (it may take a little time), so you
should soon be able to search across more books from our partner
libraries at href="http://print.google.com/" >print.google.com. We've
already had great success working with publishers directly to add
their works to our index through our href="http://print.google.com/intl/en/googleprint/publisher.html" >Publisher
Program, and when we add books with publisher permission, we
can offer more information and a much richer user experience.

As always, the focus of our library effort is on scanning books
that are unique to libraries including many public domain books,
orphaned works and out-of-print titles. We're starting with
library stacks that mostly contain older and out-of-circulation
books, but also some newer books. That said, we want to make all
books easier to find, and as we get through the older parts of the
libraries we'll start scanning the stacks that house newer
books.

These older books are the ones most inaccessible to users, and make
up the vast majority of books – a conservative estimate would be 80
percent. Our digital card catalog will let people discover these
books through Google search, see their bibliographic information,
view href="http://print.google.com/print?q=pioneer&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&pgis=1&id=hjhu2OaXKw4C" >
short snippets related to their queries (never the full text),
and offer them links to places where they can buy the book or find
it in a local library.

We think that making books easier to find will be good for authors,
publishers, and our users. We're excited to get back to work
making a comprehensive, free, full-text card catalog of the
world's books a reality. Happy searching!

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The point of Google Print

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

Posted by Adam Mathes, Associate
Product Manager, Google Print Team

You may have read about the AAP's lawsuit announced today which
objects to Google Print. We'll post our comments about that
soon. Meanwhile, we offer this commentary from Eric Schmidt. It ran
on the op-ed page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal, and we are
reprinting it in full with that paper's permission.

Books of Revelation
By Eric Schmidt
The Wall Street
Journal
October 18, 2005

Imagine sitting at your computer and, in less than a second,
searching the full text of every book ever written. Imagine an
historian being able to instantly find every book that mentions the
Battle of Algiers. Imagine a high school student in Bangladesh
discovering an out-of-print author held only in a library in Ann
Arbor. Imagine one giant electronic card catalog that makes all the
world's books discoverable with just a few keystrokes by
anyone, anywhere, anytime.

That's the vision behind Google Print, a program we introduced
last fall to help users search through the oceans of information
contained in the world's books. Recently, some members of the
publishing industry who believe this program violates copyright law
have been fighting to stop it. We respectfully disagree with their
conclusions, on both the meaning of the law and the spirit of a
program which, in fact, will enhance the value of each copyright.
Here's why.

Google's job is to help people find information. Google
Print's job is to make it easier for people to find books. When
you do a Google search, your results now include pointers to those
books whose contents, stored in the Google Print index, contain
your search terms. For many books, these results will, like an
ordinary card catalog, contain basic bibliographic information and,
at most, a few lines of text where your search terms appear.

We show more than this basic information only if a book is in the
public domain, or if the copyright owner has explicitly allowed it
by adding this title to the Publisher Program (most major U.S. and
U.K. publishers have signed up). We refer people who discover books
through Google Print to online retailers, but we don't make a
penny on referrals. We also don't place ads on Google Print
pages for books from our Library Project, and we do so for books in
our Publishing Program only with the permission of publishers, who
receive the majority of the resulting revenue. Any copyright holder
can easily exclude their titles from Google Print — no lawsuit is
required.

This policy is entirely in keeping with our main Web search engine.
In order to guide users to the information they're looking for,
we copy and index all the Web sites we find. If we didn't, a
useful search engine would be impossible, and the same dynamic
applies to the Google Print Library Project. By most estimates,
less than 20% of books are in print, and only around 20% of titles,
according to the Online Computer Library Center, are in the public
domain. This leaves a startling 60% of all books that publishers
are unlikely to be able to add to our program and readers are
unlikely to find. Only by physically scanning and indexing every
word of the extraordinary collections of our partner libraries at
Michigan, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library and Harvard
can we make all these lost titles discoverable with the level of
comprehensiveness that will make Google Print a world-changing
resource. But just as any Web site owner who doesn't want to be
included in our main search index is welcome to exclude pages from
his site, copyright-holders are free to send us a list of titles
that they don't want included in the Google Print index.

For some, this isn't enough. The program's critics maintain
that any use of their books requires their permission. We have the
utmost respect for the intellectual and creative effort that lies
behind every grant of copyright. Copyright law, however, is all
about which uses require permission and which don't; and we
believe (and have structured Google Print to ensure) that the use
we make of books we scan through the Library Project is consistent
with the Copyright Act, whose "fair use" balancing of the
rights of copyright-holders with the public benefits of free
expression and innovation allows a wide range of activity, from
book quotations in reviews to parodies of pop songs — all without
copyright-holder permission.

Even those critics who understand that copyright law is not
absolute argue that making a full copy of a given work, even just
to index it, can never constitute fair use. If this were so, you
wouldn't be able to record a TV show to watch it later or use a
search engine that indexes billions of Web pages. The aim of the
Copyright Act is to protect and enhance the value of creative works
in order to encourage more of them — in this case, to ensure that
authors write and publishers publish. We find it difficult to
believe that authors will stop writing books because Google Print
makes them easier to find, or that publishers will stop selling
books because Google Print might increase their sales.

Indeed, some of Google Print's primary beneficiaries will be
publishers and authors themselves. Backlist titles comprise the
vast majority of books in print and a large portion of many
publishers' profits, but just a fraction of their marketing
budgets. Google Print will allow those titles to live forever, just
one search away from being found and purchased. Some authors are
already seeing the benefits. When Cardinal Ratzinger became pope,
millions of people who searched his name saw the Google Print
listing for his book "In the Beginning" (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
in their results. Thousands of them looked at a page or two from
the book; clicks on the title's "Buy this Book" links
increased tenfold.

That's the heart of the Google Print mission. Imagine the
cultural impact of putting tens of millions of previously
inaccessible volumes into one vast index, every word of which is
searchable by anyone, rich and poor, urban and rural, First World
and Third, en toute langue — and all, of course, entirely for
free. How many users will find, and then buy, books they never
could have discovered any other way? How many out-of-print and
backlist titles will find new and renewed sales life? How many
future authors will make a living through their words solely
because the Internet has made it so much easier for a scattered
audience to find them? This egalitarianism of information dispersal
is precisely what the Web is best at; precisely what leads to
powerful new business models for the creative community; precisely
what copyright law is ultimately intended to support; and, together
with our partners, precisely what we hope, and expect, to
accomplish with Google Print.

Mr. Schmidt is CEO of Google.

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Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

Posted by Adam Mathes, Product Manager,
Book Search

Google Book Search
allows you to instantly search the full text
of over a million digitized books, but we thought that wasn't
quite enough. Now when you search you'll get both digitized
book results as well as records for millions of other books that
still just exist in the analog world.

When you view these new added book records, you can often read
reviews, a summary, or see what other people had to say about the
book around the web. Since these books haven't been digitally
indexed yet, you can't preview the text online, but if
you've discovered something great, we offer links to buy the
book or href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/finding-wealth-in-your-library-and.html">
find it in a library near you.

We're doing this because we want to offer users the most
comprehensive book search in the world - whether it's a book
you can href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cyokAAAAMAAJ&pg=PPA7">read
online now, href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dO-sDl1ySHoC&printsec=frontcover">
preview samples, href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HbwYAAAAMAAJ&dq=paul otlet&q=documentation&pgis=1">
see a few snippets, or just read what href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0783556756">others have
written about the book. We're still very busy digitizing
millions more books, but want to make as much discoverable as
possible today.

To find out more, check out our post on href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/05/found-more-books.html">
Inside Google Book Search.

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Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 @ 1:43 am

Posted by Adam Mathes, Product Manager,
Book Search

Google Book Search
allows you to instantly search the full text
of over a million digitized books, but we thought that wasn't
quite enough. Now when you search you'll get both digitized
book results as well as records for millions of other books that
still just exist in the analog world.

When you view these new added book records, you can often read
reviews, a summary, or see what other people had to say about the
book around the web. Since these books haven't been digitally
indexed yet, you can't preview the text online, but if
you've discovered something great, we offer links to buy the
book or href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/finding-wealth-in-your-library-and.html">
find it in a library near you.

We're doing this because we want to offer users the most
comprehensive book search in the world - whether it's a book
you can href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cyokAAAAMAAJ&pg=PPA7">read
online now, href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dO-sDl1ySHoC&printsec=frontcover">
preview samples, href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HbwYAAAAMAAJ&dq=paul otlet&q=documentation&pgis=1">
see a few snippets, or just read what href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0783556756">others have
written about the book. We're still very busy digitizing
millions more books, but want to make as much discoverable as
possible today.

To find out more, check out our post on href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/05/found-more-books.html">
Inside Google Book Search.

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Buzz about Google Print and the lawsuit

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 @ 11:12 pm

Posted by Adam M. Smith, Product
Manager

"Making all the Google Print facts clear really does make a
difference."

That's the headline of href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2005/09/21#a1396" >Derek
Slater's blog post commenting on href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-print-and-authors-guild.html" >
our recent statement about the Authors Guild lawsuit. Some
others have weighed in, and you can read a sampling from law
professor href="http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/21/1248170.html" >
Susan Crawford, the href="http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/21/1248170.html" >
href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003992.php" >EFF,
publisher href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/09/authors_guild_suit_and_googles.html" >
Tim O'Reilly, author href="http://lawlegislationandlunacy.blogspot.com/2005/09/when-pen-picks-up-sword.html" >
David Youngberg, attorney href="http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-revisited.html" >
William Patry, and search analyst href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050920-192319" >Danny
Sullivan. Or listen to this href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4857600" >
NPR story.

*Updated with link to Danny
Sullivan commentary.

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