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| 2019 || September 23 || Search algorithm update || Google announces update in its Search Console, giving it the ability to return fresher data in the Search Performance report. "The Performance report helps webmasters and site owners better understand how their site performs on Google search".<ref>{{cite web |title=Fresher data in your site’s Search Performance report |url=https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/search-performance-fresh-data.html |website=webmasters.googleblog.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Search Console speeds up data in performance reports |url=https://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-speeds-up-data-in-performance-reports-322446 |website=searchengineland.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Search Console Can Now Report on Same-Day Data |url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-console-can-now-report-on-same-day-data/327387/ |website=searchenginejournal.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || October || Search algorithm introduction || Google introduces the BERT search algorithm. BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is an open-sourced technique for natural language understanding aimed at improving the search engine’s understanding of queries — particularly longer spoken or written ones.<ref name="The big list of 2019 Google search algorithm updates"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome BERT: Google’s latest search algorithm to better understand natural language |url=https://searchengineland.com/welcome-bert-google-artificial-intelligence-for-understanding-search-queries-323976 |website=searchengineland.com |accessdate=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Introduces BERT, Algorithm Update |url=https://www.ninahale.com/google-introduces-bert-algorithm-update/ |website=ninahale.com |accessdate=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google brings in BERT to improve its search results |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/google-brings-in-bert-to-improve-its-search-results/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=22 January 2020}}</ref> he The algorithm is expected to change results rankings for up to one in 10 queries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome BERT: Google’s latest search algorithm to better understand natural language |url=https://searchengineland.com/welcome-bert-google-artificial-intelligence-for-understanding-search-queries-323976 |website=searchengineland.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Just Announced a Major Search Algorithm Change That Users Will Probably Love, and Some Businesses May Absolutely Hate |url=https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/google-just-announced-a-major-search-algorithm-change-that-users-will-probably-love-and-some-businesses-may-absolutely-hate.html |website=inc.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Search Now Reads at a Higher Level |url=https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-advancing-grade-reading/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Search will soon understand normal questions, not just keywords |url=https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/10/25/googles-search-bert-questions-language/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=8 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || October || Userbase || As of date, Google search controls 88.3% of the search market in the {{w|United States}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=If You Invested $10,000 in Google's IPO, This Is How Much Money You've Have Now |url=https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/11/25/if-you-invested-10000-in-googles-ipo-this-is-how-m.aspx |website=fool.com |accessdate=7 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[Timeline of web search engines]]
* [[Timeline of search engine optimization]]
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