What is Google Hummingbird ?

[Mahender]

What is Google Hummingbird ?

[albertocosta]

Google Hummingbird is the name of an algorithm implemented on the Google search engine . The purpose of this computer process is to improve the "human" understanding of a browser search. The idea is to better understand what a human seeks to return the most relevant results in relation to research.

[shoppingswag]

Hummingbird is about synonyms but also about context. Google always had synonyms, but with Hummingbird it is also able to judge context - thereby judging the intent of a person carrying out a search, to determine what they are trying to find out.

[movers]

Hummingbird is about Conversational Search, Human Search, Improving Local Search.

[Saravanan28]

One of the significant advantages of Hummingbird is that Google was able to refresh not just their index but its search engine as well. However, they also retained important elements such as the search algorithms they previously created.

[godwin]

Hummingbird is a search algorithm used by Google. Google Hummingbird algorithm update is all about improving results for "conversational search", instead of just looking for key words it helps user search specific questions. This concept is called semantic search.