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As we approach the celebration of the 4th of July, I thought it might be interesting to share a request for information made to the US Federal Register and a post on the...

Last week, we reported that it is safe to remove authorship markup from you site, citing Gary Illyes who said Google now completely doesn't use authorship anymore.

As with many distributed teams our approach to tools at Wildbit is to try to strike a balance between making sure everyone on the team knows what’s going on, and not having hours of meetings every day. We are very serious about the ability to have a lot of time during the day for focused work, so we sometimes err on the side of not enough meetings. For this reason the team hasn’t done formal daily standups for a while, instead opting for a weekly meeting to do a roundtable of what everyone’s...

I am seeing some, not crazy amount, but some small chatter around a possible Google update over the weekend throughout Monday and...

Steven Levy, world famous author, wrote on Back Channel a bit about RankBrain, here is the quote:

It turned out the answer was yes, and the system is now part of search...

By OSX – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12890983 Understanding Systems

When I was in high school, one of the required classes I had to take was a shop class. I had been taking mostly what the school...

So after almost two years since Google officially killed authorship, Gary Illyes from Google said it is finally safe to remove authorship markup from your pages.

Just a few months ago, Gary said don't remove authorship from your pages...

NOTE: This story has been revised from when it was originally published in October 2015 to reflect the latest information.

Yesterday, news emerged that Google was using a machine-learning artificial intelligence system called “RankBrain” to help sort through its search results. Wondering how that works and fits in with Google’s overall ranking system? Here’s what we know about RankBrain.

The information covered below comes from three original sources and has been updated over time,...

Google is now using its RankBrain machine learning system to process every query that the search engine handles, and the system is changing the rankings of lots of queries.

The news emerged this week as part of Steven Levy’s Backchannel story about machine learning efforts at Google. From the story, in regard to RankBrain:

Google is characteristically fuzzy on exactly how it improves search (something to do with the long tail? Better interpretation of ambiguous requests?) but Dean says...