“We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it recently became a stronger signal for non-navigational queries,” said Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison.

Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, confirmed the change late on Friday saying, "we've long used "openness" as part of our local ranking systems, and it recently became a stronger signal for ...

The System Uses BERT Google used the BERT language model to classify whether phrases extracted from business websites describe actual job types. BERT was fine-tuned on labeled examples and given ...

Google also shared new stats on actions it took in 2023 to block fake reviews and local listings. Google has a new review algorithm that the search company says it better and faster at taking down ...