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 ...

TW-BERT is an end-to-end query term weighting framework that bridges two paradigms to improve search results Integrates with existing query expansion models and improves performance Deploying the new ...

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 ...

Get a better understanding of Google's ranking systems with this excerpt from SEJ's Ranking Factors 2023 ebook. Look at the impact of query intent on ranking. There are multiple ranking systems, and ...

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, ...

An eBay director of global ecommerce and payments has updated a patent for an algorithm that ranks search query results based on matching language with geographic region. The patent supports search in ...

Google recently updated its local search ranking algorithm to strengthen its “openness” signal for non-navigational queries. “We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it ...

We may be seeing the start of a Google Search ranking algorithm update, as I am starting to see volatility spiking in the Google Search results and a spike in chatter within the SEO community. I know ...