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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller said that with some Google search algorithm updates, it is like when you plant seeds in your garden. In short, he said it is not always easy to define when a search algorithm ...

Google cofounder Larry Page had a vision for search engines 25 years ago that sounds eerily close to what its AI product ...

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 ...

For Airbnb hosts such as myself, the site's search algorithm is an invisible hand that can make or break our business. Successfully catering to the algorithm's quirks can mean the difference between a ...

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.

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