Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries (Annotated)

As part of our continued effort to be more transparent about how search works, we're publishing video footage from our internal weekly search meeting: "Quality Launch Review." We hold the meeting almost every Thursday to discuss possible algorithmic improvements and make decisions about what to launch. This video is from the meeting that happened on December 1st, 2011, and includes the entire uncut discussion of a real algorithmic improvement to our spell correction system. The language can be technical, so we've included annotations to provide some context for the discussion (and have a little fun!).

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[Angus Ng]

I wonder why they don't use Chromebooks.

[Shanike De silva]

Dude, i LOVE that indian accent.

[TheFailInspector]

Cause the less than 400 MB of code written all of them doesn't include coding equipment for the world's biggest search engine.

[nrviognjiocfmbkirdom]

They are programmers...

[Mattypantaloons]

Matt Cutts with the Thinkpad :) I surprised most of them are on Macs

[rishabhsingla2002]

Jealous seeing an Indian heading Google's search algorithms?

[ripberge]

I want 8 minutes of my life back. Just post videos about Matt Cutts' team and their BS attempts to improvement search quality and strengthen ad revenue.

[Jim Thornton]

In an effort to be more transparent about how search works, we are going to show you how we go about improving results for the most worthless 0.1% of queries, ie. really, really long queries with multiple misspellings.

[photonicmassemitter]

Normal people do not punch holes through walls when talking to their boss. Thats just fucking retarded.