Google Search Algorithm

That is great, but can google change their algo to some point where it works differently? Their ad business is there in the web.

Why isn't google releasing the full algorithm?

Same reason Google search result is broken. The algorithm rewards people who play the algorithm.

TL;DR Google lies about how its search algorithm works.

There are a lot of ways to look at it.The "You're not the customer"-perspective: You as a user of google search is not the customer. The customer is the people placing ads on Google search, and secondary the people placing ads on the pages google search leads users to.The "its an algorithm"-perspective: Google is a search engine, not a collection of curated links. In the past, Google has been very much against having human rate results, but I think they actual have

Do the engineers at Google even know how the Google algorithm actually works? Better than SEO experts who spend there time meticulously tracking the way that the algorithm behaves under different circumstances?My bet is that they don't. My bet is that there is so much old code, weird data edge cases and opaque machine-learning models driving the search results, Google's engineers have lost the ability to predict what the search results would be or should be in the majority of cas

Since we're talking about Google, it's 99.999% likely to be an algorithm.

Yep. Not sure what do these questions try to go after...If Google stops being useful, just quit using it.Apparently, Google's search algorithm is one of the most hidden secret in the world, and has insanely complex evaluation mechanism in place, any anecdote feedback is not going to cause a ripple in shaping this algorithm.

They make some claims about the limitations of other search engines that doesn't seem true. Heck recently there was an article that says that google feeds a lot of signals(and we don't exctly know which), into a large machine learning algorithm, which they even don't know how it works.So algolia knows how it all works ? yeh, right.

I wouldn't be surprised if this issue is as mysterious to Google staff as it is to you.Google Search no longer runs a clearly defined algorithm to find search results. It is a collection of AI systems that are trained continuously on a variety of data. There is probably no human alive who fully understands how Google makes decisions about which results to return and how to rank them. They just understand how to provide feedback to adjust results they don't like.If the system gets