Why are algorithms used by dominant search engines becoming a privacy threat? Do algorithms ‘filter’ the internet according to user patterns?

This is a very powerful asymmetry: Anyone can notice a change in search results, but it’s extremely difficult to prove what caused it. That gives algorithm designers immense deniability.

This divergence doesn’t just apply to political opinions; it also touches on factual topics, from climate change to ...

Researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have developed a novel quantum algorithm that extends Grover's quadratic speedup to continuous search problems ...

Google Head of Search Spam Matt Cutts posted a video today answering how Google goes about evaluating which new search algorithms they use and which they throw away or adapt. The question was ...

Researchers are enlisting the help of the public to investigate one of the great mysteries — how does the Google algorithm work?

From core updates to BERT, here are the big algorithm changes that shook up search rankings in 2019.

When we’re looking for something online, Google’s algorithm frees us from having to sort and search through multitudes of only not-very-relevant results. On the other hand, algorithms might ...