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title: "What is Google Algorithm?"  
description: "What is Google Algorithm?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2020-12-14  
updated: 2020-12-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156349/what-is-google-algorithm  
category: "google"  
tags: ["search engine optimization", "google updates"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Google Algorithm?

What is [Google Algorithm](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/333655/what-is-the-latest-google-algorithm-update-in-2023)?

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Where [Google](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43833/google-lighthouse-and-how-is-it-changing-the-way-we-development-and-design-websites) [algorithm](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/119/implementing-cryptography-in-c-sharp-dot-net-by-using-sha1-algorithm) is a set of rules, commands and codes that helps the search engine to find relevant search results to user queries. This is said to be more than 200 ranking factors Google algorithm uses to rank a web page for specific keywords. And [Hummingbird](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156353/what-is-hummingbird-update) is the name provided to the Google algorithm and every year thousands of updates are improving the algorithm in multiple ways.


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