Google at 15 Introduces a New Search Algorithm “Better ranked results for longer queries” Fall2013

2001, adds “did you mean” 2002, handles synonyms 2004, added news & stock quotes 2005, added Autocomplete 2006, added video, weather, flights 2007, added movie times & patents 2008, Google search mobile app 2009, voice search 2010, Google Instant 2011, added image search 2012, added knowledge graph How Google Search Has Changed Over the Years

Hummingbird Google has updated its core query analysis algorithm, called Hummingbird impetus for the change was that as more people speak searches into phones, they’re doing so in a more natural way than they type in queries “Conversational search” is one of the biggest improvements, e.g. “What’s the closest place to buy the iPhone 5s to my home?” A traditional search engine might focus on finding matches for words — finding a page that says “buy” and “iPhone 5s,” for example. Instead Hummingbird focuses on the meaning behind the words. It will understand the actual location of your home, if you’ve shared that with Google. It will understand that “place” means you want a brick-and-mortar store. It might get that “iPhone 5s” is a particular type of electronic device carried by certain stores.

Google’s Knowledge Graph Hummingbird relies upon Google’s Knowledge Graph It enables someone to search for things, people or places that Google knows and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. It currently contains more than 500 million objects, as well as more than 3.5 billion facts about and relationships between these different objects. See the video at

Sept, 1998, founded by Page & Brin July, 2000, world’s largest search engine July, 2001, Image search is started Feb, 2003, Google buys blogger Mar, 2004, Google launches Gmail June, 2005, Google launches Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Videos July, 2005, Google purchases Android Oct, 2006, Google buys YouTube Sept, 2008, Google launches Chrome July, 2009, Google launches Chrome OS for Netbooks July, 2010, Google releases first Android smartphone, Nexus One August, 2011, Google buys Motorola Mobility June, 2012, Google introduces a tablet, Nexus 7 and Google Glass June, 2013, Google buys waze for mapping/navigation Major Moves by Google Over the Years