Talk:Google Hummingbird

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The meaning of the name[edit]

In a cited article, Google stated that they came up with the name 'Hummingbird' because they considered it to be synonymous with precise and fast. But the addition to this article was reverted. I just want to argue that it is relevant to notate the authors intended meaning of the name, and how it came to be chosen.David Condrey (talk) 06:50, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Spam[edit]

Removed spam links from India, plus tidied up the poor English grammer (30 Sep 2013)

Thank you. You moved it in the right direction, but it still has a long way to go. I would try and translate it into real English myself, but there's a lot of it that makes no sense at all. (The basic point seems to be that Google is dumbing down its user interface.) Maproom (talk) 07:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. They are keeping ahead of competition on what the purpose of 'search' is, IMO. — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 21:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 'smart' users of Google-search-hummingbird will still be able to use the Advanced Search panel, and/or enter directly their own 'complex' search-strings. What's the downside? -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 12:59, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow .!. Semantic ?[edit]

WOW, this article is very 'nice' but ultra-short, like a hummingbird. And it does not even include the word, 'semantic' which is the whole motivation for the new engine, 'hummingbird'. I'll see what I can do on that aspect; or at least watch your editing--hint, hint. ;-) "-) :-) TIA, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 12:56, 25 April 2014 (UTC) PS: I really like the lede, hummingbird from Google.[reply]

I added Semantic_analysis_(machine_learning) to the 'See also' section. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 13:18, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Wow .!." is right! Hummingbird is nice! I was searching for images/drawings of galaxies observed in 1700s/1800s today, and was returned web and image results about the samsung galaxy phone. Pages. I later searched for things related to difficulties of exploring the moon Titan, and was returned web results about a level in a Final Fantasy video game that takes place on titan.

The hummingbird craps into a pool below you, tells you to "dive", and there you have your search results.

This article is only a brief on the tech, and does not provide any examples, images, comparisons, or any other effects statistically (good or bad) of what this actually did, what effect it has. It seems a lot of people have a positive opinion about it despite the fact it ignores almost all words you type in and only picks a match here in there, the rest in behind the scenes work where the engine returns things SIMILAR to what you searched for. For now I will have to look elsewhere for more information but why do we only put information up about the theoretical technical advancements in the engine, and look at how Hummingbird behaves in reality. Is there no data? Is there too much money behind opinions?

What does Hummingbird, thinking about WHY you are searching for something rather than WHAT you are searching for mean realistically? (Other than ruining your search results, which you can tell is clearly my opinion).

Cody-7 (talk) 06:52, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does it use Latent semantic indexing or something different[edit]

Under Features it sounds like Latent semantic indexing which is not mentioned. How are they different ? - Rod57 (talk) 13:41, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Logo[edit]

Is there any indication that the logo is the official logo for Google Hummingbird? The website it came (https://www.verticalresponse.com/blog/google-hummingbird-update/) from makes no such claim. There are many unofficial logos all over the internet created for SEO blogs, and this just appears to be one of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Needsleep99 (talk • contribs) 05:08, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]