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 ...

Instagram’s home feed ranking algorithm is receiving an update that’s designed to boost the visibility of original content. Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced the ranking change is one ...

A review of many of Twitter’s patents reveals some indications of criteria that are influential to rankings that are not readily apparent. Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that the company is going to tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more on its platform. Following the announcement, a spokesperson for ...

As Google better understands how the content fits in within the context of the whole web, links might not be as necessary. Google’s John Mueller said that in the future he can see a Google Search ...

It has been a while since I reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update but it seems over the past 24 hours or so, we are seeing one. It probably started yesterday and is now ...

TW-BERT is an end-to-end query term weighting framework that bridges two paradigms to improve search results Integrates with existing query expansion models and improves performance Deploying the new ...

Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors. Reading time 8 minutes This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ...

Graph-based ranking algorithms assign importance scores to nodes by interpreting the structure of links as a basis for iterative computation. At the core lies the PageRank model, which interprets a ...

Leaked Google documents has given the search industry proprietary insight into Google Search, revealing very important elements that the company uses to rank content. Thousands of leaked documents, ...