While Google does make major update announcements, the exact inner
workings of the algorithm are unknown (and a bit mysterious) to the general public.
Although the precise inner
workings of the algorithm are known only to Amazon, there are a few general accepted principles:
Not exact matches
Take a look at the inner
workings of the social media
algorithms powering Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Even app developers who don't understand the inner
workings of machine - learning
algorithms can easily get this kind
of code online to build sensor - sniffing programs.
In particular we describe the
workings of the «superhuman»
algorithm that three
of us (along with our colleague Trausti T. Kristjansson
of Google) entered in the separation challenge.
Amazon's ranking
algorithm is
of course pretty complex, the inner
workings of it being a closely guarded secret, but the key factor that drives it is sales (or downloads if your book is free).
Although the inner
workings behind the
algorithm is unknown, visitors may get the quickest idea
of what they might want to throw in their cash apart from picking up the first product based on their original determination.
To the extent that we can ascertain the
workings of these mysterious
algorithms (which have not been disclosed to the scientific community), they appear to rely on principles (e.g., similarity and complementarity) that have very small effects on relationship well - being.