June 22, 2007
Google: 25% Of Queries Are New & Adding Question Engine
Google's Udi Manber - Search is a Hard Problem from Read/Write Web has an interesting write up on a presentation Udi Manber, Google's VP of Engineering, gave the other day at Supernova. In his presentation, he tried to explain why "search is a hard problem." But a few of his statements really stood out from the others.
Manber said 20 to 25% of the queries that Google sees today, have never seen before. Wow, 25% of the queries people enter into Google today, were not seen before today?
Manber also said that Google is rolling out a new search function that interprets questions better. Manber gave three examples of how Google will be handling this.
