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

Adam Aleksic talks about his new book 'Algospeak,' which details how algorithms are changing our vocabulary; plus, we check in with Hennessy + Ingalls bookstore.

Others pointed out that search engine algorithms change all the time, and that what Magoun saw in one search might not be representative of trends. Some said his judgment was off, or even racist. And ...

Jodie Archer had always been puzzled by the success of The Da Vinci Code. She’d worked for Penguin UK in the mid-2000s, when Dan Brown’s thriller had become a massive hit, and knew there was ...

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To determine "success," the computer scientists used download counts from Project Gutenberg, which has more than 42,000 books available for free download, as well as Amazon sales and certain ...

In an emailed statement to the WSJ, Amazon denied the claims, stating that it had not tweaked its algorithm to rank search results based on profitability; however, it declined to discuss the inner ...

These are just some of the patterns the authors of a new book, “The Bestseller Code,” out Sept. 20, have detected through an algorithm they designed to identify the DNA of bestselling novels.