Google's Smith Algorithm Outperforms BERT

Google recently published a research paper on a new algorithm called SMITH that it claims outperforms BERT for understanding long queries and long documents. In particular, what makes this new model better is that it is able to understand passages within documents in the same way BERT understands words and sentences, which enables the algorithm to understand longer documents. Advertisement Continue Reading Below On November 3, 2020 I read about a Google algorithm called Smith that claims to outperform BERT. I briefly discussed it on November 25th in Episode 395 of the SEO 101 podcast in late November. I’ve been waiting until I had some time to write a summary of it because SMITH seems to be an important algorithm and deserved a thoughtful write up, which I humbly attempted.