Political leanings don't factor into Google's search algorithm. But the authoritativeness of page links that the algorithm spits out and the perception of thousands of human raters do. In a tweet ...

Have you ever wondered how Google produces the desired output for what we search for on it? Is there a person sitting behind the platform that monitors all our queries, or is it just modern software ...

Google's Robby Stein explains why AI Overviews appear for some searches but not others, describing an engagement-based system ...