Considering DirecTV whipped up its own search algorithm from scratch, it seems to work intuitively.
Matt Cutts, the engineer charged with reworking Google's search algorithm, articulates his mission differently.
Google bases much of its search algorithm on keywords, but that would be a disaster on Jeopardy.
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The company's thousands of engineers are looking at how to incorporate semantic analysis into a search algorithm.
In regards to rankings, in 2010 Google began using site speed as a ranking factor in their search algorithm.
Although nobody likes to see unflattering reviews, right now, quantity means more than quality in the local search algorithm.
Some speculated that Ask was becoming a bland portal site, dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google's search technology.
Demand Media took a major hit in traffic after Google changed its search algorithm to weed low-quality pages out of top results.
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In fact, Ask's focus on answers isn't its first attempt to gain a competitive advantage against Google by methods other than improving its search algorithm.
Google's prized search algorithm will not be affected by the settlement.
Google's search algorithm ranks sites based primarily on the number of links from other sites, as well as the search ranking of those linking sites themselves.
For decades, great companies were built on the back of some type of technical breakthrough their engineers developed a faster chip, a better search algorithm, a snappier operating system.
Page, who will turn 38 about a week before taking over, invented the original formula for Google's effective and secret online search algorithm while studying at Stanford University.
Google's search algorithm, capable of pulling information from hundreds of millions of Web sites in a fraction of a second, represents one of the most sophisticated tools that humans have ever developed.
By the time Sun founder and angel investor Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Google its first outsider check for equity in August, 1998, Page and Brin had already proved the efficacy of their new search algorithm.
Or look at Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with their famous search algorithm by applying the ranking method used for academic articles (more citations equals more influence) to the sprawl of the Internet.
Matt Cutts is a Google associate who gives insights into the company, its search engine algorithm updates, and other SEO issues.
Somewhere deep in the cyber matrix, my little make-and-model search had triggered an algorithm.
Yes, Google essentially controls the search results with its algorithm and could potentially use its position to affect other companies.
The company uses a patented algorithm and search technology, and actively monitors job quality to provide a real-time snapshot of all job openings available right now.
The trick to fast search is to crunch the algorithm on a National Security Agency-class supercomputer.
But he emphasized that Ask would remain a general-purpose search engine with its own algorithm, not a niche site.
The Stanford professor first met Brin and Page as students after they approached him looking for advice on what to do with their budding search engine and its PageRank algorithm.
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It makes sense that search would draw from social for its algorithm to determine accurate rankings.
The problem, you see, is that Google still refuses to change its algorithm to assure that all search results appear first.
With search, we relied on a complicated yet unknown algorithm to provide us with answers.
As you may know, Google recently altered its algorithm to keep low-quality content from cluttering up search results.
Will the Netflix algorithm base its movie recommendations not only on what you search for but how you ask?
If the search engineers at Google want evidence that their recent adjustment of their algorithm to favor higher-quality content is having the intended effect on content creators, they need look no further than the PaidContent 2011 conference.
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Google employs proprietary technology and the details of its ranking algorithm, the process which determines what tops the list when search results are returned, is a closely guarded secret.
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