Google’s pace of tweaking and updating Search has accelerated dramatically — it made 3,200 changes to Search in 2018 alone, up from about 400 changes back in 2010. Just a sliver of these changes ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates. A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal ...

Google updated its algorithm to combat explicit deepfakes. Content removal processes are now easier and more comprehensive. Search rankings will demote sites with frequent policy violations. Google ...

This article breaks down the machine learning problem known as Learning to Rank and can teach you how to build your own web ranking algorithm. This quote couldn’t apply better to general search ...

Back in 1996, a quantum physicist at Bell Labs in New Jersey published a new recipe for searching through a database of N entries. Computer scientists have long known that this process takes around N ...

Google has changed its search algorithm to alter search results in ways it has publicly denied in the past, a new investigation from The Wall Street Journal finds. The report could add fuel to ...

Many of the ranking factors involved in Google Search’s super-secret algorithm have purportedly leaked. This leak sheds light on how Google Search seemingly operates and which attributes it uses to ...

On this date in 2018, for the first time, Google confirmed a type of update that eventually came to be known as a broad core algorithm update. Google told us that for any sites impacted by these ...