While the giant has made efforts recently to elevate quality reporting in its algorithms, most of those ranking decisions are made absent of human judgement.
Google is paying publishers more than $1 billion to create and curate high-quality content|Sara Fischer|October 1, 2020|Axios
His social studies teacher was absent, which hadn’t been announced until the night before, and he hadn’t received the Zoom link for the substitute.
The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning|by Alec MacGillis|September 28, 2020|ProPublica
Noticeably absent are the US, China, and Russia—all home to companies with Covid-19 vaccines in development.
The nations opting out of a plan to ensure global access to Covid-19 vaccines|Katherine Ellen Foley|September 22, 2020|Quartz
Google, when looking at sites it knew it could trust around YMYL topics, determined that they were absent of marketing language on informational pages.
Did Google just hint at an authority profile?|Mordy Oberstein|September 21, 2020|Search Engine Land
Cultural influence shapes the gendered behavior of every human on this planet, meaning we cannot measure innate sex differences absent cultural factors.
No, Animals Do Not Have Genders - Facts So Romantic|Cailin O'Connor|August 26, 2020|Nautilus
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro|Bill Conroy|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But, they added, that body scanners are absent at local airports, which they called “this large loophole.”
A Gift to the Jihadis: The Unseen Airport Security Threat|Clive Irving|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The absent turkey had been blown clean away in the hurricane force winds, I concluded.
Confessions of a Turkey Killer|Tom Sykes|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Kate has been absent from public view since the announcment was made on September 8.
Royal Baby Due In April|Tom Sykes|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet without money, without access, and without readership, that history McMillan seems intent on making will be absent.
It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine|Alex Suskind|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mrs. Palmer alone was absent from her guests, sitting at the telephone.
The Relentless City|Edward Frederic Benson
But, to do the old sailor justice, his thoughts were not so much of their own situation as of the absent lads.
The Boy Chums in the Gulf of Mexico|Wilmer M. Ely
Cynthia was absent again, and his mother was silent and wore a troubled look.
The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete|William Dean Howells
What wife, what maid did not yearn for you absent, and burn when you were present?
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
Canovas was at once recognized as the representative of the absent King, and the country was ready to obey his directions.
The War Upon Religion|Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
British Dictionary definitions for absent
absent
adjective (ˈæbsənt)
away or not present
lacking; missing
inattentive; absent-minded
verb (æbˈsɛnt)
(tr)to remove (oneself) or keep away
Derived forms of absent
absenter, noun
Word Origin for absent
C14: from Latin absent-, stem of absēns, present participle of abesse to be away