This newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA conference in Chicago , where Google hosted a booth in the exhibit hall. They spent three days chatting with librarians about Google: what you liked, what you didn't like, and where you saw opportunities to work together to help people find useful, relevant information. In an effort to keep those conversations going, we're launching this newsletter. Consider it a first step toward what they hope will be a long and mutually beneficial relationship. They anticipate sending it out quarterly, with the occasional special feature as appropriate. This introductory issue features an article written to address one of the most frequent questions we've heard from librarians: How does Google index the web, and, more important, how does it rank the results? Matt Cutts, an engineer in our Quality group, explains the basics of indexing and sheds some light on some of the algorithms we use to determine where a site should appear on results pages. He also suggests exercises school librarians can do to help students better understand how Google works.
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