Who's who in Search Matt Cutts - Matt Cutts is one of the public faces of Gocgle - ha regularly speaks at SEO and other conferences, where is normally swamped by queries and comments about Google. - hie works for the Search Quality group at Google, who specializes in SEO issues. - He is known in the SEO community for his involvement in the Google Webmaster Guidelines, and its fight against spamdexing. - Matt received his Bachelor's and Master's degree from Kentucky University. - His field of study was computer graphics, search engines end information retrieval. SEO Baidu To Build Computer Cluster 100X More Powerful Than The "Google Brain" Baidu sets their sights on image and voice search by enhancing computing power. Barry Schwartz on September 4, 2014 at 8:48 am Bloomberg reports on an interview with Andrew Ng, the chief scientist of Baidu, China's largest search engine. Andrew Ng, who founded the Google Brain project at Google in r2011 and now is at Baidu, said that Baidu is working on building out a computing clusteP that will be 100 times more powerful than what they developed at Google back in 2012 with the Google Brain project. The Google Brain project was Google's Deep Learning project that explores artificial intelligence. 'Baidu believes that searchers are moving away from text search and that image recognition will be key in the future of search. To do image search and image recognitio right, you need a lot more power. Baidu's CEO said yesterday that within five years ^'voice and pictures will account for more than half the total" of all searches. To compete with the image search part, you will need better image recognition, which will require more computing power says Ng. "The bigger you build these things, the better they perform," said Ng, who was hired by Baidu in May. "Our initial task is to recognize images better, to create computer vision." Fastest Growth For Baidu, Second Place For Yandex & Google Is The Runner Up? Andy Atkins-Kruger on November 1,2011 at 9:37 am Last time, I was analysing the financial performance for the quarter of Google and 258 demonstrated that internationally — excluding the UK — Google's growth rate over last g+ f year was around 44%. We have now seen the same quarters figures from other major^ international search engines and we can conclude that Baidu's growth rate in China tops f the lot, followed by Yandex in Russia. Even though Google's rate of growth outside the US and UK exceeds the US by some 20%, it still seems significantly behind both the Chinese performance of Baidu at 85% growth over the same quarter in 2010 or Yandex's 65% growth over the same period. Of course, both Baidu and Yandex are helped bv their market leading postions in growing economies. The IMF is forecasting 9.4% growth for China in 2011 and 4.2% for Russia. By comparison, the UK's growth rate is expected to be 1.1% and the US a rattling 1.5%. I J SJ.50O $4,000 WOO SiSOO am S1.50O $1,000 Google, Baidu and Yandex Revenue and Income