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Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller recently shared a YouTube video that puts a human face on Google. It lets you peek under the covers and begin to appreciate just how complex this ubiquitous and seemingly simple service actually is.
The movie describes Google’s reason-for-being while taking you inside several of its many complexes, data centers, and offices where you can see employees going about their day-to-day work. You’ll hear insiders talk about:
- how Google continues to provide its service, free of charge, to people all around the world;
- how and why it combats SPAM;
- how it discovers and ranks content (at a high level);
- why there are so many data centers;
- the role of quality raters;
- the rationale behind elusive “expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T)” ranking considerations;
- the role of BERT and machine learning; and
- so much more.
Meet some new and recognizable Googlers like Ben Gomes, Pandu Nayak, Cathy Edwards, David Bez, Urs Hölzle, Jeff Dean, Paul Haahr, and more. Learn what the company values and how that is reflected in almost everything they do.
How I Discovered the Video
John Mu shared this video on Twitter. The comments are interesting too.
TIL there's a new 1hr video about how Search works — covering things like where Google came from, how search keeps getting improved, and more — with lots of scenes from the folks who make & decide the changes. https://t.co/LmlzYNN84p pic.twitter.com/elvlmU9e8b
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) October 30, 2020
What do you think?
Thanks, Donna — just got around to watching it. I used to write natural language search software, so I found it very interesting!
I’m glad you liked it Mike. Good to hear from you!