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All About the New Google RankBrain Algorithm

Just lately, Google Search Engine made another one its interesting yet painfully ambiguous announcements: the business is now counting on the power of an artificial intelligence system known as RankBrain to keep an eye on the SERPs (Search Engine Result Page), make improvement where necessary, and in the end guide the development of their core search algorithm.

All about the new Google RankBrain algorithm

What is Google RankBrain?
RankBrain is Google’s name for a machine-learning artificial intelligence system that’s used to help process its SERPs, as was reported by Bloomberg and also proved to us by Google also.

What is machine learning?
Machine learning is in which a computer instructs itself how to take action, Alternatively than being shown by humans or pursuing detailed programming.

What is artificial intelligence?
True artificial intelligence, or AI for brief, is in which a computer is often as smart as a individual, at least in the sense of learning both from being shown and from building on what it is aware of and making new connections.

What exactly does RankBrain do?
From emailing with Google, I gather RankBrain is principally used in an effort to interpret the queries that individuals post to find webpages that might not have access to the precise words which were searched for.

When Did RankBrain start?
Google informed us that there was a continuous rollout of RankBrain in early 2015 and that it is been completely live and global for a couple of months now.

How about an example?
While Google did not give sets of queries, the Bloomberg article did have an individual exemplory case of a query where RankBrain is supposedly supporting. Here it is:

"What’s the title of the consumer at the highest level of a food chain"

To a person without professional, “consumer” appears like mention of someone who purchases something. However, it is also a technological term for something that consumes food. There's also levels of consumers in a food chain. That consumer at the highest level? The title — the name — is “predator.”

Getting into that query Google provides good answers, even though the query itself seems pretty odd:


Now consider how similar the results are for a search like “top level of the food chain,” as shown below:

top level of the food chain

Read the full article on Search Engine Land.