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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google launched nine confirmed algorithmic updates in 2023, as well as a new AI search engine, the Search Generative Experience. In 2022 and 2021, Google had 10 confirmed algorithmic updates. Unless ...

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 ...