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Google Announces Hummingbird Algorithm, Updates To Search, iOS App and Android

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-can-almost-drive dept.

rjmarvin writes "Google search is turning 15, and on a media field trip to the Menlo Park garage where Sergey Brin and Larry Page began the company, they rolled out a slew of product updates. Chief among them was the announcement of a new search algorithm called Hummingbird along with an updated Knowledge Graph and other search improvements, on top of updated Google Now cards for Android, push notifications for Google's iOS app and more."

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  1. Tomorrow, not today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As someone who's birthday is also September 27th, I can tell you that Google's birthday is tomorrow too, not today. Every year I'm greeted with a birthday graphic on the Google homepage. For the first two years, I just thought Google had somehow figured out when my birthday was and was customizing the page for me personally. But when I mentioned it to co-workers, it turned out they were only doing it for me :-)

  2. So what? by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google's not improved for a decade.

    The only reason it's still up there is that Yahoo's not improved for nearly two decades, and Microsoft can't do anything right.