Recent Google search algorithm changes may have exacerbated online book piracy, according to new research. Textbook subscription service Perlego analyzed traffic to book-piracy sites and found ...

Amazon’s search algorithm boosts books promoting false claims about vaccines over those that debunk health misinformation, the researchers found — and as customers engage with products ...

Now, the book search algorithm takes into account more than 100 "signals," individual data categories that Google statistically integrates to rank your results.

In her new book, "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism," Noble points out that search engines are not magically impartial arbiters.

More than 14,000 lines of Google's search algorithm code goes public online. Editor's Note: This article was updated to include new data and information. This year has already seen some major ...

A new book shows how Google’s search algorithms quietly reinforce racist stereotypes. by Sean Illing. Updated Apr 6, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC. Getty Images/EyeEm.

The result of their work—detailed in The Bestseller Code, out this month—is an algorithm built to predict, with 80 percent accuracy, which novels will become mega-bestsellers.What does it like ...

Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who owns books and at least one shelf. The algorithm addresses ...