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Excerpt: Introduction While looking at a cool program that uses a genetic algorithm to design a car that drives over bumpy terrain I started to think about genetic algorithms and whether it would be possible to create an SEO genetic algorithm. How Genetic Algorithms Work For those of you who are not familiar with genetic algorithms they are process by which  a complex task can be found by using a process of selection over many generations. Initially a set of random numbers is chosen to form a gene. Each of the numbers in the gene represents an aspect of  a possible solution. To take the…