Google patent inventor
Navneet Panda is a Google engineer whose work made possible the Panda search quality update, which Google introduced in February 2011 and named internally after him. Google's head of search at the time, Amit Singhal, described him as one of the key engineers behind the breakthrough that enabled the update. He is a named inventor on Google search patents, including US 8,682,892, "Ranking search results".
All their Google patents on Google PatentsPatent US 8,682,892, signed by Navneet Panda, scores a whole site by the ratio of independent links to searches for that site. Here's how the ratio works and what it changes for you.
Patent US 9,767,157 shows how Google predicts the quality of a site it has never scored, by comparing the phrases on its pages with sites it already rated. The full mechanism, step by step.
Patent US 9,031,929, co-signed by Navneet Panda, scores a whole site by the ratio of searches that name it to searches that lead to a click on it. The formula, its variants, and what it means for your brand.
US patents granted to Google that name this inventor, from Google Patents. A patent we analyze links to our article.