How Google’s Hummingbird Update Shaped Semantic Search
Google’s Hummingbird Update, which was announced on September 2013, was said to have affected 90% of all search queries. Unlike the Penguin and Panda updates, however, Hummingbird was not a penalty-based update, but a change in the way Google treated different types of search queries. Hummingbird placed greater emphasis on natural language queries, considering context…