Google’s BERT Update – Should you have to ignore the update?
by Tech2Globe Web Solutions Web Portal & Software Development CompanyIn the
last week of October month, Google introduced a massive changed in its
algorithm after the last 5 years and rolled out BERT update with the motive to
improve the search queries and ranking system. The intent to introduce this new the algorithm will help the search system to better understand the context of the
user’s search queries and provides the relevant results as per the searches.
But
there’s a bit of confusion among the SEO professionals about the real impact of
BERT and how it affects the searches.
So, by
this blog we’ll uncover the layer and provide you the right answer; should you
have to ignore the BERT update or not? Before getting dive into this let’s
first understand what exactly is BERT?
What
is BERT?
BERT
stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is an
open-source pre-trained Natural Language Processing (NLP) system designed from
Google to understand the real nuances of search queries. Simply, it’s a
technique that helps Google to figure out the real intent and context behind
the search queries. BERT model tries to understand the context of a word based
on all of the other surrounding words, making the search results of
conversational queries more accurate.
How
BERT Works?
Google
wrote in its blog post-BERT particularly for longer, more conventional queries
and the search will be able to understand the context of the words in your query.
But many SEOs and many of the tracking tools didn’t notice massive changes in
the Google search results while this algorithm rolled out in Search after
launched the first week.
Even
Google’s Public Search Liaison; Danny Sullivan highlights that “there’s
nothing new with this update”, you just have to focus on to drive the
user-centric content.
The real motive of this update to make improvements in the Google search system to
crack the intent of search queries. Also, Google gave some examples of:
In one
of the examples, the search query “math practice books for adults” –
previously Google shows the search results for “Math Practice for
Grade 6 -8”. But after applying the BERT, the results have some changes
to “Math for Grownups” at the top of the SERP.
Clearly
shown in the search result the book for Grade 6 – 8 still ranks on the SERPs
and the second book especially aimed for an adult that is also rank. Here,
after applied the BERT the query became more personalized and measure each the nuance that includes in the searches.
You’ll
be a better understanding by this example that Google explained, in the phrases
“nine to five” and “a quarter to five,” the word “to” has two different
meanings, which may be obvious to humans but less so to search engines. So, here
works BERT that specially designed to distinguish between such nuances to
facilitate more relevant results.
We
should have to care for that!
Umm!
Not exactly.
As
Google explained that BERT models to do a much better job helping you find
useful information and will help Search better for people across the world. A
powerful characteristic of these systems is that they can take learnings from
one language and apply them to others. So we can take models that learn from
improvements in English (a language where the vast majority of web content
exists) and apply them to other languages. This helps us better return relevant
results in the many languages that Search is offered in.
So the
conclusion, the primary focus of an SEO professional should be to generate
user-centric content rather than trying to manipulate searches. As Google says,
“user is the first priority” & whenever the content drives the user
interest the more rankings you achieved.
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