Hummingbird

Hey guys,
Everyone's making a big fuss over Hummingbird, but I was wondering, is it restricted to certain parts of the world, say the US/Canada?

I used an US proxy for my work, and it all performed beautifully. Switching back to my EU home IP, it no longer worked, no fancy, intuitive results.

Got any info?

 

I was wondering about this as well. I noticed that the top advertising adwords section is moved around.

 

Hummingbird, announced in August 2013, is a change to Google’s ranking systems that tries to improve Google’s understanding of the true intent behind a user’s search query, by understanding the true, ‘real life’ meaning of the words and phrases used.
In short, Hummingbird aims to make sure that for any given query, Google returns pages that are related to the meaning behind the search, rather than returning pages that just match one or two of the words in the search phrase. This is Google trying to understand conversational search.

 

for more information about this update you can read:

http://www.thinkabledigital.com/blog/long-tail-keyword-search-the-impact-of-google-hummingbird/?utm_source=ebook-seo2014&utm_medium=ebook&utm_content=hummingbird-list&utm_campaign=seo2014

http://www.isoosi.com/blog/hummingbird-the-opposite-of-long-tail-search.html

http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816

 

I believe such difference in search results is normal, as the searches from different countries provide different results, based on the optimization of websites for a certain country, language of website etc. For example I had a friend who was ranking in the first page of google.bg for a certain keyword and in google.com his website is nowhere to be seen. Further more, results differ even when searched from the same country, Google is basically tailoring the results to fit your search as close as possible.

Still, I might have misinterpreted the given info, and I would very much like to see someone confirming or denying that, based on exact experiences

 

"Hummingbird" algorithm, claiming that Google search can be a more human way to interact with users and provide a more direct answer.
and i really enjoy it.

 

Hey, you are right with what you're referring to, but that was not quite what I was asking.

I tried the sample 'who is Obama' question on Google.com, and I did not get the expected hummingbird results. If I were to continue and type in 'how tall is he', google's hummingbird should have directly displayed Obama's height, but instead treated it like any other query.

What I was trying to say is that the new algorithm does not work the same all over the world and I would love to be able to enjoy it without a US proxy.

 

Ah, understood now, misinterpreted the information.
In this case I would also be very much interested if anyone else have seen such difference in results, as this is something no one have observed and listed before as an issue.

 

I've not noticed any difference yet, but to be fair Google is still the best search engine for returning acurate results

 

But I tried searching "who is obama" and Google (Google.com/ncr) provide me the correct information which is related to hummingbird update -providing the best user experience which is what is asking with the user and it's meaning but not in a word by word basis in search results.

 

Yes, it could be restricted to US and Canada... because we do not see its affects in search results in India.

 

Exactly, I do not find the same behaviour from Europe at the moment. Just like @faizzsheikh mentions, not all search results are affected, everywhere on the globe.

Is it possible it's US/Canada restricted at the moment?