The Colossus Update: Waking The Giant

Posted by Dr-PeteYesterday morning, we woke up to a historically massive temperature spike on MozCast, after an unusually quiet weekend. The 10-day weather looked like this: That's 101.8°F, one of the hottest verified days on record, second only to a series of unconfirmed spikes in June of 2013. For reference, the first Penguin update clocked in at 93.1°.Unfortunately, trying to determine how the algorithm changed from looking at individual keywords (even thousands of them) is more art than science, and eve...