Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President of Engineering More than forty members of Google's technical staff gathered in Lyon, France in April to participate in the global dialogue around the state of the web at the World Wide Web conference )WWW( 2012. A decade ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin applied their research to an information retrieval problem and their work"presented at WWW in 1998"led to the invention of today's most popular search engine.

Posted by Rebecca Shapley, Fusion Tables Team The Fusion Tables team has been a little quiet lately, but that's just because we've been working hard on a whole bunch of new stuff that makes it easier to discover, manage and visualize data. A new way to look at your Fusion Table - Try the "Experimental" version of our Fusion Tables web application. The new design helps you explore and collaborate better on data.

Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine, Research Evangelist and David Chan, Statistician In July 2011, Google released a study called "Incremental Clicks Impact of Search Advertising" that showed the amount of search ad traffic that is incremental to traffic from an advertiser's organic search results. In that study, we asked these questions: What happens when search ads are paused? How much does organic traffic make up for the loss in traffic from search ads?

Posted by Matt Mohebbi, Software Engineer In May of this year we launched Google Correlate on Google Labs. This system enables a correlation search between a user-provided time series and millions of time series of Google search traffic. Since our initial launch, we've graduated to Google Trends and we've seen a number of great applications of Correlate in several domains, including economics ) consumer spending , unemployment rate and housing inventory (,

Posted by Lizzy Van Alstine and Jon Vaver, Quantitative Anaylsis Team Advertisers want to be able to measure the effectiveness of their advertising. Many methods have been used to address this need, but the most rigorous and trusted of these are randomized experiments, which involve randomly assigning experimental units to control and test conditions. At Google, we have found that randomized geo experiments are a powerful approach to measuring the effectiveness of advertising.

Posted by Matthias Grundmann , Vivek Kwatra , and Irfan Essa , Research Team Earlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor , including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in real-time. The core technology behind this feature is detailed in this paper , which will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ) CVPR 2011 (.