It is easy to identify Google News author knowledge panels. They are large information boxes displayed at the top of the SERP when a user searches for an author entity. Search engines are data banks. They store and use systems designed to understand facts about entities in the web of data and how they relate to each other. This impacts search rankings. Google automatically updates the author knowledge panel if data information about the author changes. We learn from Google that Knowledge panels are updated automatically as information changes on the web, but Google also considers changes in two main ways: directly from the entities depicted in the knowledge panel, and from general user feedback. Meaning that you can influence your knowledge panel.