Algorithms are part of our everyday life. For example, when you Google a question, it is an algorithm that brings up the most popular sites. Using a proprietary computation, Google ranks the websites ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Built into these systems are the human values of their developers, the ...

Google's John Mueller said it is not true that Google's own engineers do not "know the exact composition of their highly complex algorithm." Many folks in our industry, including myself, doubt that ...

Google voice search can now understand and answer more sophisticated questions than ever before. It can process questions that include superlatives, particular points in time, and complex combinations ...