32 Google Search Quality Updates and Highlights on May 2012

Google Search Quality Highlights and Updates on May 2012

Google search quality updates on may month that may including the Knowledge Graph, better search for users in mainland China, and an updated Search App for iPhone.

32 search quality highlights and updates in Google on May 2012,

1. Deeper detection of hacked pages.
2. Autocomplete predictions used as refinements.
3. More predictions for Japanese users.
4. Improvements to autocomplete on Mobile.
5. Fewer arbitrary predictions.
6. Improved IME in auto-complete.
7. New segmenters for Asian languages.
8. Scoring and infrastructure improvements for Google Books pages in Universal Search.
9. Unified Soccer feature.
10. Improvements to NBA search feature.
11. New Golf search feature.
12. Improvements to ranking for news results.
13. Better application of inorganic backlinks signals.
14. Improvements to Penguin.
15. Trigger alt title when HTML title is truncated.
16. Efficiency improvements in alternative title generation.
17. Better demotion of boilerplate anchors in alternate title generation.
18. Internationalizing music rich snippets.
19. Music rich snippets on mobile.
20. Improvement to SafeSearch goes international.
21. Simplification of term-scoring algorithms.
22. Fading results to white for Google Instant.
23. Better detection of major new events.
24. Smoother ranking functions for freshness.
25. Better detection of searches looking for fresh content.
26. Freshness algorithm simplifications.
27. Updates to +Pages in right-hand panel.
28. Performance optimizations in our ranking algorithm.
29. Simpler logic for serving results from diverse domains.
30. Precise location option on tablet.
31. Improvements to local search on tablet.
32. Internationalization of “recent” search feature on mobile.

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