The other day, I covered at Search Engine Land a Wired article named Google’s hand-fed AI now gives answers, not just search results.

The article explains that Google is now using “sentence compression algorithms” as of this week in the desktop search results. Sentence compression algorithms is Google’s way of extracting the best answer for a query to be displayed in the featured snippets.

Of course, this is not just used for featured snippets but also for Google Home responses, Google Assistant and more. Which is why it is important that Google build a better way to get more answers.

Here is a snippet (using my own sentence compression) to pull out the core nugget from this article:

I wonder if you guys noticed any changes to the featured snippets that corroborate the Wired story that this went live on desktop search at Google this week?

I asked Glenn Gabe who tracks a nice number of featured snippets and he noticed no significant changes this week with them:

Forum discussion at Twitter.