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How Google uses machine learning in its search algorithms

Gary Illyes of Google tells us Google may use machine learning to aggregate signals together for better search quality, and with RankBrain. Barry Schwartz  on October 18, 2016 at 10:40 am One of the biggest buzzwords around Google and the overall technology market is machine learning. Google uses it with  RankBrain  for search and in other ways. We asked Gary Illyes from Google in  part two  of our interview how Google uses machine learning with search. Illyes said that Google uses it mostly for “coming up with new signals and signal aggregations.” So they may look at two or more different existing non-machine-learning signals and see if adding machine learning to the aggregation of them can help improve search rankings and quality. He also said, “RankBrain, where … which re-ranks based on based on historical signals,” is another way they use machine learning, and later explained how RankBrain works and that Penguin doesn’t really use machine learning. Here is the au