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Re: the Product Reviews Update expanding to other languages Via

: We have nothing to pre-announce. For some updates, the team works fast to roll things out to other languages. For others, it's slower. Policy/legal reasons can also impact things: youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_wSe

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Glenn Gabe

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Jan 16, 2022

More: Is Google using machine learning to train algos for the PRU? Via

@johnmu

: For updates like this, it's not something where human reviewers would be in the loop. And we do use a lot of machine learning overall, so it's probably used to some extent: youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_wSe

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Glenn Gabe

@glenngabe

And more: Will the PRU be baked into Google's core ranking algo? Via

@johnmu

: It's tricky to define the "core algo". If an algorithm works very well, we might continue using it for a long time. So you could say it's part of the "core algo" at that point youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_wSe

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2:47 PM · Jan 16, 2022

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So the "core algorithm" is a collection of algos which are in a file called core? It doesn't really matter but what does matter to site owners is experiencing the impact of algo changes that are not part of the core. Makes me wonder how useful core update announcements really are

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