13th January 2021 — justinwalmsley
No, Google SMITH Algorithm Is Not Live
This post was originally was originally published here on Search Engine Round Table.
There is some speculation in certain SEO groups and forums that Google has launched a new algorithm that is better than BERT and RankBrain named SMITH. SMITH stands for Siamese Multi-depth Transformer-based Hierarchical (SMITH) Encoder. This is not live, it is currently just a research paper from Google.