Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Unconfirmed Google algorithm update may be better at discounting links and spamFeb 3, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Did Google update their Penguin algorithm? Did Google block …
Read More »Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters and show the site’s true scale
Reddit has just completed a major redo of its scoring algorithm aimed at cracking down on bots and vote brigades while also showing just how big the site has gotten. In a self post on the site, admin KeyserSosa explained that the team felt that some of the many rules …
Read More »Scientists discover nature’s algorithm for intelligence
We’ve been attempting to reverse-engineer intelligence since the dawn of our own history — or at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who carved the inscription “know thyself” at the temple of Apollo, Delphi. Throughout the ages, one old chestnut has stubbornly resisted yielding up its secret: the organizational …
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