Fact-based algo

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Good thought process about Google's latest paper on potentially building a fact-based algo. Thought it valuable to have here to discuss.
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  Emil Engholm Sørensen: This ;discussion is fake. Google will never, make an algo-change based on facts, it has been testet internally in Google. And it was awfully results! PageRank is the ground of Google, and will never be removed. ;
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: No one is talking about removing it, but supplementing the information they take in. Don't forget that just because something failed previously, doesn't mean it will never work.
  
  Types of failures that could have happened: Not enough data sources they could crawl at the time (versus the ability to crawl a lot more now) or the non-use of machine learning previously or even a different style that they hadn't considered that is working quite well now.
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  Emil Engholm Sørensen: Don't forget, that Hummingbird is not even working very well yet. Hummingbird still got many years of improvement, before they fix Hummingbird, they would never start a new algo.
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Sure they do, Panda or Penguin are great examples of them doing just that. It's about how much they're willing to have false positives occur.
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  Emil Engholm Sørensen: Hummingbird is still far from perfect.
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  Micah Fisher-Kirshner: Yep, thus they're willing to roll stuff out even if it's not quite perfect. Just if it's good enough (for the time being).