Amit Singhal

The Evolution of Search (As Told by Google)

Liz Gannes in News on November 28, 2011 at 9:59 am PT

The premise of Google’s new infomercial seems to be based a bit more in creationism than evolution.

Nerd Out With Google’s Search Gurus (Video)

Liz Gannes in News on August 8, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

In a rare joint public appearance, Google’s Amit Singhal, Ben Gomes and Matt Cutts dove deeply into the big issues facing search.

Google to FTC: Bring It On

Ina Fried in News on June 24, 2011 at 9:50 am PT

Confirming it has received a subpoena from the Federal Trade Commission, Google maintains all of its actions have been to benefit the user, not harm the competition.

Google Makes Search Faster With Instant Pages, Desktop Voice Search & Image Queries

Liz Gannes in News on June 14, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Speed was the aim of multiple Google products announced at a press event in San Francisco today, including a new feature called “Instant Pages” that will pre-render the search result page a user is most likely to click on, and extensions to voice and image search.

PageYank: As New SVPs Are Born at Google in CEO Reorg, What Happens to the Old Ones?

John Paczkowski in News on April 8, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

Things are sure shaking over at Google, since the sudden departure on Monday of Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s head of product management, and the appointment of a passel of new SVPs. What’s next in newly installed CEO and Co-founder Larry Page’s GoogQuake?

"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts. Schweeet!

Is Google a Monopolist? A Debate

Amit Singhal and Charles Rule in News on September 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm PT

Amit Singhal of Google argues the competition is one click away. Charles Rule, an attorney whose firm represents corporations suing Google, counters that the company commands a share of search advertising in excess of 70 percent—the threshold for monopoly under the Sherman Act.

A Couple of Google Geeks Sitting Around Talking About Search: Video Interviews With Gundotra and Singhal!

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

Here’s the video interview BoomTown did with the two Google execs most responsible for the rollout of the company’s real-time search and other new mobile search features announced yesterday. That would be VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and Google Fellow Amit Singhal, who is known as the master of ranking algorithm and search quality. The smooth-talking Gundotra and the jumping-bean Singhal make an interesting pair of nerdish bookends, but are essentially pushing the same idea that Google is as innovative as ever.

Liveblogging the Google Search Event: Gutenberg, Goggles and Scrolling Real-Time Search!

Kara Swisher in News on December 7, 2009 at 10:08 am PT

Right now, BoomTown is sitting right behind the very affable Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer of MySpace, who is here to make one of the many partner announcements with Google at its “search event” in Silicon Valley today. I also ran right into Twitter’s Biz Stone at the coffee stand. He is also here to talk about the new features Google is adding to its search repertoire, although he is remaining mum until the program starts in five minutes. Obviously, it is mostly about Google launching real-time search. Here’s what happened at the event via liveblogging.