It allows Google to parse questions a bit faster, and smarter. Unlike Panda, Penguin and other updates, Hummingbird appears to be an all new algorithm, not a refresh of an existing one.

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Last fall, Google rolled out one of its largest changes of the past decade - an entirely new search algorithm, nicknamed " Hummingbird." In contrast to the past updates, Panda and Penguin, which ...

Related: Google Announces 'Hummingbird,' an Algorithm Change to Handle More Complex Searches How Hummingbird works: Hummingbird uses Google's Knowledge Graph, which was introduced last year.

What is it? The new Hummingbird algorithm (what is Google’s obsession with animal names by the way?!) is a brand new algorithm which determines how well sites rank in the organic results. According to ...

Finally, Google also over the years has worked on better understanding content and signals both in a more efficient and smarter way. If you look back at all these updates, you can see the pattern ...

Google is making the change to ensure that search query results work well with voice-based queries, because when people speak rather than type on a keyboard or even a touchscreen, they use more ...

Well, yes. But Google algorithm updates, or in Google Hummingbird’s case, complete algorithm rewrites, aren’t things you can update your website for once and then forget about.

Occasionally, even major sites take a huge hit, drawing 10 million page views one day and 5 million the day after an algorithm change. See page ranking, Google AMP, Web spam, spamdexing and Google.

Google will index and rank sites across the Web based on content, rather than keywords. It's a well known fact that has been floating around the search industry for months. advertisement advertisement ...

Google Inc<GOOG.O> has overhauled its search algorithm, the foundation of the Internet's dominant search engine, to better cope with the longer, more complex queries it has been getting from ...

Google Inc has overhauled its search algorithm, the foundation of the Internet's dominant search engine, to better cope with the longer, more complex queries it has been getting from Web users.