Google is describing it as the most dramatic alteration to its search engine since it revised the way it indexes websites three years ago.
As search queries get more complicated, traditional keyword-based systems begin deteriorating because of the need to match concepts and meanings in addition to words.
Mr Singhal, writing in a separate blog post, said: "Remember what it was like to search in 1998? You'd sit down and boot up your bulky computer dial up on your squawky modem, type in some keywords, and get 10 blue links to websites that had those words.
"The world has changed so much since then: billions of people have come online, the web has grown exponentially, and now you can ask any question on the powerful little device in your pocket."
"Hummingbird" is the company's effort to match the meaning of queries with that of documents on the internet, said Mr Singhal from the Menlo Park garage where Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin conceived their now-ubiquitous search engine.
Once again “Hummingbird” confirms that we have been on the right track for some time. Over a year ago we released our unique search term checker where you can enter a search term in order to check its impact time frame. This works by looking at many elements of a search term but one key element it checks is the length and how specific a search term is in order to get faster more targeted results.
Our search term checker is available on the home page and sign page of the site.
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