This is part of Google’s 15th birthday celebration so I hope you didn’t forget to get a present.
When you search Google it no longer just searches for individual keywords; it can now respond to questions and statements in the same way a human might, by looking at the whole query - even if it doesn’t have an exact answer.
For example, asking Google ‘Tell me about impressionist artists’ will show a list of artists but also now let you click to learn about the impressionist movement, browse individual artwork, or switch to abstract artists using filters.
Called Hummingbird, the company claims its ‘the most significant algorithm change’ in years. It will affect 90 per cent of searches and the firm began rolling it out to select users a month ago.
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September 27, 2013, 1:40pm
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I went to Google this morning to look up something, played the piñata game for a few minutes and COMPLETELY FORGOT why I had gone to Google in the first place. I mean, nothing .
Darn you, Google!
Yeah. Fat chance of me managing to actually google anything today, but I’m up to a high score of 175.