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The Honest Results policy is that we're not going to allow advertisers or partners or any one with a relationship to Google to have an advantage in our unpaid search results. As fo…

What was tweeted isn't what the page says. I work for Google Search. That's about our Honest Results policy, which means we don't allow people to buy better rankings in non-paid Se…

I'm Google's public liaison for Search, and I communicate on this stuff all the time. Typically I'm most active on Twitter. You can always ping me here: https://twitter.com/searchl…

We don't show radically different results based on user account. Region, however, can make a difference, though everyone in the same location doing the same search would generally …

Yep, thanks -- got directed to this thread. Our spam team was already on it. It is spam, not malware. No one is infected with anything. I think things are already improving and the…

Thanks. I work for Google Search. It's spam, not malware and we are looking into this.

Quotes do work. They really, really do. Every time I look into a complaint about this, I find that the text really is on the page. It just might not be readily visible. Twitter lin…

When most people search, they're generally looking for information that matches a topic, not necessarily every single word in a query. You can imagine the number of misses that wou…

We wouldn't say the word is censored. It's just an indication we found a page tha that might be relevant even though it doesn't contain one or more of the search terms, and we want…

We cater to power users. If you absolutely, positively need a word or phrase to be on a page, use quotes. "age" or "tim lee" would tell us that exact word or that exact phrase has …

We show this to indicate to you that we found a page that might be relevant but which doesn't contain that exact word. And why we would conclude that is explained better if you sea…

I work for Google Search. Knowledge panels are automatically created and generated. And it is possible that if we have two people of the same name, our systems might select an inco…

The image was not removed purposefully. Images in the Knowledge Graph can update at any time. If they do, they briefly disappear. That's what seems to be happening here. We're expl…

I'm Google's public liaison for search. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and our apologies for the inconvenience caused. This was indeed a bug that our engineers have …

Thank you. On the loss part, I'd left journalism. So Google's not causing it -- I just really needed a change after 21 years of doing it. I appreciate your kind words about it. I'm…

I'd love to see + do what + was supposed to do and not do the guessing. Has been frustrating to me, too -- though I suspect (this is part of what I'll be learning) that for the vas…

Yes and no. Matt oversaw search spam efforts and was an engineer. I won't be doing that. And I'm definitely not an engineer. Matt was also a lead on webmaster relation issues. That…

This types of concerns are very much part of the remit.

It's not a PR position. I don't work for corporate communications. I work for the search team. I'll be sharing more about the role after I have more time at Google and shape it mor…

I actually stepped down as being an advisor. They just haven't updated that part of the page. In my post, I address this. Bottom line: I don't plan to treat the company any differe…

The title is about "Google PageRank score," not Google PageRank. PageRank was one part of the reason we have a search as powerful as Google, the use of links to assign an authority…

So as the author, I'll try to clarify. The article isn't about Google's influence on the web, as a whole. Google has had a huge influence on the web in many ways, from making it ea…

You're reading things into this that I didn't write, I'd say. When Google arrived, it was a huge advance in search. It offered an obvious improvement in relevancy, which is why so …

The marketers are the ones savvy enough to understand that Google has deliberately continued to leave a gaping hole in that privacy protection for its paid advertisers. Buy ads; yo…

Of course, for personalized results, Google+ activity can have a huge impact on rankings. At times, it can trump any other factor. For personalized results. Important caveat, but t…