In This post I share some interesting facts about new algorithm of Google & it's new features.
Google Hummingbird is the new Google algorithm by Google. September 27 is Google's official birthday, making Google 15 years old. To celebrate their 15th birthday, Google launched a new "Hummingbird" algorithm, claiming that Google search can be a more
human way to interact with users and provide a more direct answer.
About "Hummingbird"
- Google claims that its Hummingbird algorithm offers a more natural way to use its search engines.
- We all know that Google is most popular search engine & billions of people everyday search for something on Google.The previous Google algos are search on basis of keywords.
- For example, if you want to search about BBM for Desktop than you have to search "BBM for PC" or "BBM + PC". It works best according to Google's previous algorithms.
- But they come to know that most users are writing whole sentences during search. So they come up with new update which get to a natural conversation between people and google search. This update can make use of more complex search requests and has a better understanding of the concept of human language, rather than a few scattered words.
Features
Knowledge Graph Comparisons
- Google being able to process more complex queries, and part of that is evident in the new comparisons feature that presents Knowledge Graph facts side-by-side.
- Now if you want to compare two things A & B than you have to search "A vs B" and google comes with some basic points of comparision.
- For example, if you want to compare orange and apple than just search "Burj Khalifa vs Empire State Building" & the result is:
- You can also try for "Cake vs Brownie","Butter vs Olive oil" etc.
Knowledge Graph Filters
- This is another interesting feature of searching. Search "list of actors" and you will find:
- Let's take another example of Scientists:
- By the way, above features are only available for most popular things in the world.
- In addition, there will be much more coming soon for android & ios smartphone users. Afterall , Google Search Senior Vice President Amit Singh said "We have only just begun."
