Google published a groundbreaking research paper about identifying page quality with AI. The details of the algorithm seem remarkably similar to what the helpful content algorithm is known to do ...

The research paper says that it has already been in use for a year. The research is dated 2023 but according to the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), it was published sometime in July 2024.

For years, researchers have been trying to find formulae that can accurately predict the future impact of scholarly papers. The latest attempt — a machine-learning algorithm unveiled in Nature ...