SMX West 2016 - How Google Works: A Google Ranking Engineer's Story
Why the open web links it
Google engineers explain how Google works and how ranking and algorithm changes are determined.
Linked by 25 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ahrefs.com, searchenginejournal.com, advancedwebranking.com, entireweb.com, sistrix.de.