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 ...

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

Google's Search Off The Record podcast sheds light on the search engine's evolving ranking systems and updates. Google uses multiple ranking systems, not one algorithm. Google now views updates as ...

I see signals, both in terms of SEO chatter and some of the Google Search tracking tools, of more volatility in the Google Search results. The volatility is algorithm update levels and can either be a ...

Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to "more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don't allow Googlebot to fetch those video files" which may lead to a "significant drop ...

Google recently updated its local search ranking algorithm to strengthen its “openness” signal for non-navigational queries. “We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it ...

The leak was first noted by search engine optimisation (SEO) experts Rand Fishkin and Mike King of The Verge. Google has confirmed the leak of 2,500 internal documents on Thursday, consisting of ...

Google has revamped its search help documentation with revised guidelines for sites with explicit content. The new document covers how SafeSearch works, how Google handles sites with sexually explicit ...