Google's BlockRank performed competitively with other state-of-the-art ranking models that were tested in research.

Search isn’t just about matching keywords – and that’s even more true when we talk about semantic search. Semantic search is about finding the right information for the searcher at the right time.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past couple of days, I have been seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. It may have started on May 1st, with the chatter within the SEO community growing ...

Google has announced plans to amend "SEO spam" in new alterations to the firm's search engine algorithm. In a public blog post published on Thursday, Aug. 18, Google highlights the necessity of ...

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 ...

The priority given to the placement of a link on the results page of a Web search. For example, Google's PageRank system, named after co-founder Larry Page, classifies a site based on the number of ...