The company's thousands of engineers are looking at how to incorporate semantic analysis into a search algorithm.
The company uses a patented algorithm and search technology, and actively monitors job quality to provide a real-time snapshot of all job openings available right now.
But he emphasized that Ask would remain a general-purpose search engine with its own algorithm, not a niche site.
In regards to rankings, in 2010 Google began using site speed as a ranking factor in their search algorithm.
Some speculated that Ask was becoming a bland portal site, dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google's search technology.
With search, we relied on a complicated yet unknown algorithm to provide us with answers.
Demand Media took a major hit in traffic after Google changed its search algorithm to weed low-quality pages out of top results.
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Google bases much of its search algorithm on keywords, but that would be a disaster on Jeopardy.
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In fact, Ask's focus on answers isn't its first attempt to gain a competitive advantage against Google by methods other than improving its search algorithm.
Matt Cutts is a Google associate who gives insights into the company, its search engine algorithm updates, and other SEO issues.
It uses an algorithm that provides ancestry-centric results that may not show up in a Google search.
Google's search algorithm, capable of pulling information from hundreds of millions of Web sites in a fraction of a second, represents one of the most sophisticated tools that humans have ever developed.
Page, who will turn 38 about a week before taking over, invented the original formula for Google's effective and secret online search algorithm while studying at Stanford University.
In 2008 it introduced a "best match" algorithm that displays the most relevant listings to what people have typed into the search box, even when the terms don't obviously match.
Google employs proprietary technology and the details of its ranking algorithm, the process which determines what tops the list when search results are returned, is a closely guarded secret.
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