Google is confirming fewer and fewer search algorithm updates, but that doesn't mean there is less ranking volatility.

Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

Google is updating its search algorithm to combat SEO spam, aiming to detect and filter out automated content more effectively alongside other adjustments. In response to user feedback about a decline ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Switzerland-based engineer Hristo Georgiev made an eyebrow-raising discovery when googling his own name: the search engine misidentified his likeness as belonging to a serial killer who happens to ...

Google launches a third product review algorithm update in search results, which builds off of the product review updates introduced last year. The first product review algorithm update, which is ...

I think everyone in our industry is surprised we have not had a confirmed Google search ranking update since April 2023. But you should expect Google to confirm a search ranking algorithm update ...

Google has often said that if they shared the full details of how its search algorithms and ranking factors would work, it would lead to abuse and poorer quality results. It seems like most SEOs agree ...

A Fourth Circuit panel appeared at odds on the role of automated searches in criminal investigations, reflecting a larger divide among the appellate courts on the issue.

Google's algorithm mistakenly tagged an engineer from Switzerland as a notorious serial killer, The Sadist, which he shared the same name with. BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 03: In this photo illustration ...

This year had different stresses accompanying the Google algorithm updates, fewer pandemic stresses, and more recession-related stress. We had ten confirmed Google algorithm updates this year, the ...