Google
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.
Amit Singhal, senior
vice president of search, told reporters on Thursday that the company
launched its latest "Hummingbird" algorithm about a month ago and that
it currently affects 90 percent of worldwide searches via Google.
"Hummingbird" is the company's effort to match the meaning of queries
with that of documents on the Internet, said Singhal from the Menlo Park
garage where Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin conceived their
now-ubiquitous search engine.
Page and Brin set up shop in the garage of Susan Wojcicki -- now a
senior Google executive -- in September 1998, around the time they
incorporated their company. This week marks the 15th anniversary of
their collaboration.
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