Alphabet is disrupting healthcare, auto, government contracts, and more with AI. We look at how it got here, where it's headed, and what this means for incumbents. Google was relentless in its pursuit of artificial intelligence even before the current wave of AI commercialization took off. It may be hard to imagine a time when neural networks -- AI algorithms initially inspired by biological neural networks -- were having a dry spell. But researchers were bearish on its commercial scalability as recently as the early 2000s.

Google announced what they called the most important update in five years. What is BERT and how will it impact SEO? According to Google this update will affect complicated search queries that depend on context. "These improvements are oriented around improving language understanding, particularly for more natural language/conversational queries, as BERT is able to help Search better understand the nuance and context of words in Searches and better match those queries with helpful results. Particularly for longer, more conversational queries, or searches where prepositions like "for" and "to" matter a lot to the meaning, Search will be able to understand the context of the words in your query. You can search in a way that feels natural for you."

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What would you do if you had the super-power to accurately answer, in a few milliseconds, a multiple-choice question with a billion choices? Would you design the next generation of Web search engines, which could predict which of the billions of documents might be relevant to a given query? Would you build the next generation of retail recommender systems that have things delivered to your doorstep just as you need them? Or would you try and predict the next word about to be uttered by U.S. President Donald Trump? The objective in extreme classification, a new research area in machine learning, is to develop algorithms with such capabilities.

Database management systems (DBMS) constitute the backbone of today's information-rich society. A primary reason for the popularity of database systems is their support for declarative queries, typically in the SQL query language. In this programming paradigm, the user only specifies the end objectives, leaving it to the DBMS to automatically identify the optimal execution strategy to achieve these objectives. Declarative specification of queries is also central to parallel query execution in modern big data platforms. Query processing and optimization have been extensively researched for close to five decades now, and are implemented in all contemporary database systems.

Web pages and other contents such as local listings or videos are ranked or displayed on Search Engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo search results, based on what the search engine considers to be most relevant to users. An SEO friendly website will automatically rank higher in search results. This has a great effect on traffic flow which is also very essential at will enhance internet visibility. Search engine optimization in Kenya is an important aspect of website development. Without quality search engine optimization services it is hard to achieve top search engine rankings.

YouTube has partnered with Merchbar to help artists sell official merchandise on their video pages. This collaboration allows artists with an official artist channel on YouTube to surface apparel, vinyl, and other forms of merchandise underneath their videos. Merchbar is currently home to over 1,000,000 items from 35,000 artists, making it one of the world's largest music merchandise aggregator providers. In an announcement, YouTube emphasizes how it's working to become a more valuable platform for artists: "This collaboration is another way YouTube is working with artists to become their most valuable platform, providing a single place to share their music, promote upcoming tour dates and showcase their own official merchandise to a global audience." YouTube is also becoming a stronger platform for fans of artists, as they now have direct access to official merchandise as they're watching the artists' latest music videos.

Facebook pages are likely to see organic impressions go down as a result of changes being made to how impressions are calculated. Matt Navarra broke the news today on Twitter, stating that the changes are rolling out between October 17-28. Facebook is changing how it calculates organic impressions meaning it will likely show a decline. Here's is a breakdown of the changes as I understand them. Facebook is specifically changing how repeat organic page impressions are calculated.

Mary Davies, president of Beanstalk Internet Marketing, is the first recipient of the Search Engine Journal Community Award. Mary received the award last week during the Pubcon Pro conference in Las Vegas. We honored Mary in recognition for all her hard work and contributions to Search Engine Journal over the past year – specifically for her work co-managing the weekly Friday Focus column, which we launched this year. Throughout the year, Mary has generously devoted her free time and put her seemingly tireless energy into this column. She has provided great guidance to all of our authors and has been instrumental in making sure we have a constant stream of high-quality articles every week.

Snapchat is rolling out Dynamic Ads – new ad unit designed specifically for Ecommerce advertisers. "Over the years, Snap has invested heavily in solutions for performance marketers to drive their business, and this new addition will only increase the depth of our offering." What Dynamic Ads offer that Snapchat's other advertising options do not is automated personalization, which offers new ways to scale and drive performance. Snapchat is selling the ad unit as a simple way to create mobile ads at scale while maintaining brand identity through mobile-first templates. Syncing a product catalog allows Snapchat to be continually updated about changes to products.