On September 26, 2013, Google announced a major update to its search engine, codenamed Hummingbird. Hummingbird is designed to provide users with more relevant and accurate results, especially for complex or conversational queries..
Hummingbird is the first major change to Google’s search engine since the introduction of Caffeine in 2010. Caffeine was a major overhaul of Google’s infrastructure, designed to make the search engine faster and more efficient. Hummingbird, on the other hand, is a change to the way Google processes and understands search queries..
One of the most significant changes in Hummingbird is the way it handles synonyms and related concepts. In the past, Google would often return results that were only directly related to the search query. Hummingbird, on the other hand, is able to understand the intent of the search query and return results that may not be directly related, but are still relevant..
For example, if you search for .