The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 53, No. 10, Special Issue: Applications and Developments in Mathematical Programming (Oct., 2002), pp. 1109-1117 (9 pages) In the min-max loop ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 55, No. 7, Part Special Issue: Local Search (Jul., 2004), pp. 694-704 (11 pages) The multi-index assignment problem (MIAP) with decomposable costs ...

BrightLocal has launched a new free tool called “Local RankFlux,” designed to alert marketers to changes in local search rankings across multiple industries. Exclusively focused on the Google local ...

Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes ...

Earlier this month we covered a report from Sterling Sky that said the Google Local search ranking algorithm now uses if a location is open as part of its local ranking system. Google's Search Liaison ...

Google confirms changes to the local search algorithm recently rolled out, which it's calling the November 2021 local search update. Google confirms an algorithm update began rolling out to local ...

Google recently updated its local search ranking algorithm to strengthen its “openness” signal for non-navigational queries. “We’ve long used ‘openness’ as part of our local ranking systems, and it ...