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by Pick-A-Hill2019 2429 days ago
Think this -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353861 is what you are referring to? If so it seems that Google have tweaked their search results using NLP. An example provided in the link may help .. "Here’s a search for “2019 brazil traveler to usa need a visa.” The word “to” and its relationship to the other words in the query are particularly important to understanding the meaning. It’s about a Brazilian traveling to the U.S., and not the other way around. Previously, our algorithms wouldn't understand the importance of this connection, and we returned results about U.S. citizens traveling to Brazil. With BERT, Search is able to grasp this nuance and know that the very common word “to” actually matters a lot here, and we can provide a much more relevant result for this query."