Google has announced the release of improved technology that makes it easier and faster to research and develop new algorithms that can be deployed quickly. This gives Google the ability to rapidly ...

Rank aggregation and ranking algorithms form a critical area of research that seeks to consolidate multiple ordering or preference lists into a single consensus ranking while also developing ...

If you wanted to know why your photo of a pizza didn't break Instagram last month, the company may have some more insight for you. In a blog post, Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, has laid out more ...

Leaked Google documents has given the search industry proprietary insight into Google Search, revealing very important elements that the company uses to rank content. Thousands of leaked documents, ...

There are multiple reasons why a site can drop in rankings due to a core algorithm update. The reasons may reflect specific ...

It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search ...

PageRank is a foundational algorithm that has significantly influenced the way search engines rank webpages by assessing both the quantity and quality of inbound links. The technique, originally ...

Information from mobile marketing data firm Flurry suggests that Apple might have made some changes to the algorithms which govern the chart positions on the iOS App Store. The changes are thought to ...

Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects of how tweets become promoted in the timeline feeds of users. Some of Twitter’s timeline ranking factors are very surprising, and adjusting ...