Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Google is updating its search algorithm to combat SEO spam, aiming to detect and filter out automated content more effectively alongside other adjustments. In response to user feedback about a decline ...

Anyone who has ever shopped online or browsed social media recognizes what might be called the headwaiter or sommelier function—the algorithm suggesting that if you liked this product, or post, or ...

Google has confirmed that a massive leak of some 2,500 internal documents related to its search engine is authentic – and one expert said the trove shows that “Google tells us one thing and they do ...

Google launches a third product review algorithm update in search results, which builds off of the product review updates introduced last year. The first product review algorithm update, which is ...

Google has often said that if they shared the full details of how its search algorithms and ranking factors would work, it would lead to abuse and poorer quality results. It seems like most SEOs agree ...