A search problem refers to the task of finding a solution within some space of possible options, and that space could be made up of discrete steps or continuously varying values. For example, solving ...

Back in 1996, a quantum physicist at Bell Labs in New Jersey published a new recipe for searching through a database of N entries. Computer scientists have long known that this process takes around N ...

A year ago, I didn’t know there was a Whole Page Algorithm. The concept had never occurred to me. Turns out that search engines like Bing have whole page algorithms that filter the candidate sets and ...

In aviation, the black box is a source of knowledge: a receptacle of crucial data that might help investigators understand catastrophe. In technology, a black box is the absence of knowledge: a ...

This article breaks down the machine learning problem known as Learning to Rank and can teach you how to build your own web ranking algorithm. This quote couldn’t apply better to general search ...

In the realm of search engines, there’s a holy grail. Think human intelligence, as if you were telling your question to a friend—but the friend exists through the computer screen and in the digital ...

Discover Google's success through innovation, strategic product prototypes, and monetizing search engines via Google Ads, ...

Representative Ted Lieu couldn't contain himself after hearing his colleagues in Congress whinge to Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the search engine was biased against conservatives. "If you want ...

My first encounter with racism in search was in 2009 when I was talking to a friend who causally mentioned one day, “You should see what happens when you Google ‘black girls.’” I did and was stunned.