If you wanted to know why your photo of a pizza didn't break Instagram last month, the company may have some more insight for you. In a blog post, Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, has laid out more ...

Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects of how tweets become promoted in the timeline feeds of users. Some of Twitter’s timeline ranking factors are very surprising, and adjusting ...

A Google patent describes a method of classifying sites as low quality by ranking the links. The algorithm patent is called, Classifying Sites as Low Quality Sites. The patent names specific factors ...

Search isn’t just about matching keywords – and that’s even more true when we talk about semantic search. Semantic search is about finding the right information for the searcher at the right time.