As you know, Google hosted an AMA with the Google Brain Team yesterday on Reddit and I went through the 742 comments in the thread to pull out any references to search, RankBrain or rankings and honestly, I found nothing.
All I discovered was that the Google Brain team doesn’t want to talk about RankBrain.
Besides for the generic mentions that their team did work on search and it was called RankBrain, I found these two other remarks:
From Jeff Dean at Google who said we don’t talk about RankBrain and search:
From Greg Corrado at Google who said he worked on RankBrain, which was a way they used machine learning in a practical way:
That is really it, unless I missed something. You can scan through the comments yourself on Reddit.
I honestly felt we would hear more about this but I guess I was wrong.
Forum discussion at Reddit.