They just want to F with SEOs

[Mackin USA]

Google to Announce that Links are no Longer a Major Ranking Factor

There are no words BUT I'm sure Y'all can think of some...

https://www.distilled.net/resources/google-to-announce-that-links-are-no-longer-a-major-ranking-factor/

[rcjordan]

Humans are no longer needed.  ....Except to BUY stuff.  Here are a few dots that very likely connect to that article, imo.

Neural networks are not only driving the Google search engine but spitting out art for which some people will pay serious money.

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-artificial-intelligence-gets-first-art-show/

Google AI algorithm masters ancient game of Go
Deep-learning software defeats human professional for first time.

http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234

[ergophobe]

Wow... from the article on Go

The IBM chess computer Deep Blue, which famously beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, was explicitly programmed to win at the game. But AlphaGo was not preprogrammed to play Go: rather, it learned using a general-purpose algorithm that allowed it to interpret the game's patterns, in a similar way to how a DeepMind program learned to play 49 different arcade games.

I've always said that eventually links would have to go away as a primary ranking signal, but that it would require AI that could read and evaluate sources as well as an expert in the field. That may be coming sooner than I thought.

[rcjordan]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3042162/mobile/google-destinations-tries-to-make-smartphone-travel-search-less-maddening.html

[gm66]

Scarey shit!

[Mackin USA]

IMFO

I want total control over how I search.

Don't want G or any other Corporation making decisions for me.

The More Tabs the better.

[end rant]

[gm66]

IMFO

I want total control over how I search.

Don't want G or any other Corporation making decisions for me.

The More Tabs the better.

[end rant]

I support that rant.

[rcjordan]

Back eons ago, I made my first $1000s/mo on hotel bookings ('Course, toolman was making $10ks/mo on pharm). Stuff like this would have nuked my revenue stream.

[rcjordan]

Just to prove it wasn't a fluke

Google s DeepMind beats Lee Se-dol again to go 2-0 up in historic Go series

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/10/11191184/lee-sedol-alphago-go-deepmind-google-match-2-result

[Rupert]

Stuff like this would have nuked my revenue stream.

Ha Ha! Alphabet share price is up again today!