- Page Quality – This launch helped you find more high-quality content from trusted sources.
- Autocomplete – This launch introduced changes in the way Google generate query predictions for Autocomplete.
- Answers – This change improved display of the movie showtimes feature.
- Answers – Google improved display of the MLB search feature.
- Answers – This change improved display of the finance search feature.
- Universal Search – Google made improvements to driving directions in Turkish.
- Alternative Search Methods – Google added support for Answers about new stock exchanges for voice queries.
- LTS – Other Ranking Components – They improved our Googleb ranking to determine what pages are relevant for queries containing locations.
- Maru – SafeSearch – Google updated SafeSearch to improve the handling of adult video content in videos mode for queries that are not looking for adult content.
- Query Understanding – This change updated term-proximity scoring.
- Answers – Google made improvements to display of the local time search feature.
- Snippets – Google refreshed data used to generate sitelinks.
- Imadex. Freshness – This change updated handling of stale content and applies a more granular function based on document age.
- Universal Search – This change added the ability to show a more appropriately sized video thumbnail on mobile when the user clearly expresses intent for a video.
- Knowledge Graph – Google added a lists and collections component to the Knowledge Graph.
- Snippets – This change improved a signal Google use to determine how relevant a possible result title actually is for the page.
- Knowledge Graph – The Knowledge Graph displays factual information and refinements related to many types of searches. This launch extended the Knowledge Graphto English-speaking locales beyond the U.S.
- Answers – Google added better understanding of natural language searches for the calculator feature, focused on currencies and arithmetic.
- nearby. User Context – Google improved the precision and coverage of our system to help you find more relevant local Googleb results. Now Google’re better able to identify Googleb results that are local to the user, and rank them appropriately.
- essence. Autocomplete – This change introduced entity predictions in autocomplete. Now Google will predict not just the string of text you might be looking for, but the actual real-world thing. Clarifying text will appear in the drop-down box to help you disambiguate your search.
- Answers – Google introduced better natural language parsing for display of the conversions search feature.
- Other Ranking Components – Google changed to fewer results for some queries to show the most relevant results as quickly as possible.
- Other Search Features – For pages that Google do not crawl because of robots.txt, Google are usually unable to generate a snippet for users to preview what’s on the page. This change added a replacement snippet that explains that there’s no description available because of robots.txt.
- Other Ranking Components – This change was a minor bug fix related to the way links are used in ranking.
- Indexing – Google made back-end improvements to video indexing to improve the efficiency of our systems.
- Palace. SafeSearch – This change decreased the amount of adult content that will show up in Image Search mode when SafeSearch is set to strict.
- Page Quality – Google refreshed data for the “Panda” high-quality sites algorithm.
- Answers – This change improved the display of the movie showtimes search feature.
- gresshoppe. Answers – Google updated the display of the flight search feature for searches without a specified destination.
- Snippets – Google made improvements to surface feGoogler generic phrases like “comments on” and “logo” in search result titles.
- Synonyms – This change made improvements to rely on feGoogler “low-confidence” synonyms when the user’s original query has good results.
- User Context – Google made improvements to show more relevant local results.
- Refinements – This change helped users refine their searches to find information about the right person, particularly when there are many prominent people with the same name.
- SafeSearch – In “strict” SafeSearch mode Google remove results if they are not very relevant. This change previously launched in English, and this change expanded it internationally.
- Knowledge Graph Carousel. Knowledge Graph – This change expanded the Knowledge Graph carousel feature globally in English.
- SafeSearch – This change helped prevent adult content from appearing when SafeSearch is in “strict” mode.
- Autocomplete – This change tweaked the display of real-world entities in autocomplete to reduce repetitiveness. With this change, Google don’t show the entity name (displayed to the right of the dash) when it’s fully contained in the query.
- TSSPC. Spelling – This change used spelling algorithms to improve the relevance of long-tail autocomplete predictions.
- Page Quality – This launch helped you find more high-quality content from trusted sources.
- Answers – Google improved the display of the currency conversion search feature.
- Other Ranking Components – This change improved how Google rank documents for queries with location terms.