Google Lags In Public Research

Earlier this week, John Battelle took a look at "the practice of academic publishing in the field of search," and more specifically, at how many papers were submitted by each of the major search companies at a recent conference. The results: it seems as if Google doesn't play well with others, at least as far as research papers are concerned.

Battelle writes, "Turns out, of all the papers submitted at this conference (conferences tend to be where most academic papers are presented), ten came from Microsoft Research, ten from Yahoo (one in concert with Microsoft), and none came from Google." As always with this sort of thing, the information comes with a few disclaimers. The numbers are "submitted as a datapoint and not an indictment, but it is interesting nonetheless." Batelle also noted that the conference "has the final say on what papers get accepted, but I doubt they'd bong papers from Google (though Larry and Sergey's paper on Murdok. Visit

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