The algorithm looks at more than 200 factors in determining who gets those rankings, but Google does not disclose what those factors are or how they are weighted.

Algorithmic programmers (especially the C/C++/C# variety) will look at HTML and SQL and decry them as not real languages. That's because they don't have typical algorithmic programming features.

The World Bank funds a poverty relief program in Jordan that uses an algorithm that stiffs the poorest people, Human Rights Watch found.