"Algorithmic changes" refers to modifications or updates made to a set of rules or instructions followed by a computer program or system. These changes are implemented to improve or adjust how the program processes data, analyzes information, or produces results.
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There are many reasons behind this,
from algorithmic changes to Facebook's News Feed, to the increase in content being shared on the platform.
Any big site that sells stuff never redesigns the wheel, they
do algorithmic changes to enhance discovery or to make it better / faster /
Never forget that black hat SEO techniques will leave your website exposed to penalties and unprotected in the event
of algorithmic changes.
Before there was a data problem, Facebook's
algorithmic changes had a lot of people freaking out.
While initial efforts to define and tackle this problem were focused on hoaxes, the root of the problem is that both good and bad content are incentivized by the same sets of tools and
algorithmic changes.
Search engine optimization experts suggest the key to understanding a search engine's
algorithmic changes is to look at its past updates and think about what each was designed to accomplish.
This was not to say that every web page was affected by
every algorithmic change.
At the time, Facebook contended that
algorithmic changes had been made to weed out spammy, non-engaging content, but that the median reach of pages hadn't budged.
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Google said
this algorithmic change will have a «significant impact» on mobile search results.
Mosseri said that would be mostly due to less time spent watching video, given that video content would likely be hurt by
this algorithmic change.