In conjunction with Search Engine Land, I developed this flow chart to help others follow a process to determine if a Panda or Penguin algorithm update may be affecting their sites. The flow chart ...

Why Search Algorithms Use Entities. One of the areas of search that’s getting some decent attention lately, though which is under-emphasized, is the idea of entities.

Amazon’s carefully worded denial shows how difficult it is to prove that a search algorithm exhibits favoritism or discrimination. Amazon need not include a profitability metric in its formula ...

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web from Wired has an excellent and detailed look at the evolution Google's search algorithm over the years.

More than 14,000 lines of Google's search algorithm code goes public online. Editor's Note: This article was updated to include new data and information. This year has already seen some major ...

After weeks of gradual rollout, Google completed its latest core search algorithm update on October 19.. First announced on October 5, the October 2023 Core Update is expected to significantly ...

In short, the algorithms Google uses to rank search results are complicated, ever-changing, and bigger than any one person. A regulatory action that, let’s say, ...

Google is changing its news search algorithms again, in a move that’s sure to annoy everybody. Today’s announcement is that the company is going to try to emphasize “original reporting ...