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A Google engineer’s redacted testimony published online by the U.S. Justice Department offers a look inside Google’s ranking systems, offering an idea about Google’s quality scores and introduces a ...

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Those familiar with the work of writer Nate Silver — author of the book “The Signal ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...