As SEOs, we’re obsessed with how Google’s algorithms work. Well, it turns out they work together. In a recent Webmaster Central Google Hangout John Mueller revealed that Google’s various ...

The algorithm is at work when, for example, the ‘search’ tab starts finishing the query you are typing with suggestions. Google Images is now an integral tool for internet-based for work and play.

Interestingly, the seeds of that work began with research that Larry Page, Google’s co-founder, was carrying out at Stanford University in the 1990s. He didn’t have search in mind then.

The company does invite publishers to submit a request for inclusion in Google News results, which sees it check out the applicant’s claim to ownership of the site.

Google had not seen 15% of queries used, and as such had no context for them, nor past analytics to determine if their results were good or not at satisfying the user’s intent. Enter RankBrain.

Google's famous algorithm can't be deployed to search through books because they don't link to each other in the way that webpages do. There is no perfect BookRank corollary for PageRank.