Google Search Silently Updated

Google's search engine, probably the best search engine on the web, is once again updated with quite an important feature, having a look at the relevancy of the results it is able to provide. As you already know, searching Google for a certain expression or phrase requires you to put it between quotes in order to search the web for the syntax you entered. In case you forget to enter the quotes, Google will provide websites that include all the words you've entered in any order they may exist.

However, it may seem like the Mountain View company decided to make a change to this searching function as it now searches for the entered expression without the quotes in case there's no result for the syntax you've entered between the quotes. Have a look at the adjacent screenshot to get a better picture of the new update. Searching for a query that provides no results automatically looks for the entered phrase without the quotes, Google displaying the following message: "No results found for 'the entered query'. Results for the entered term (without quotes)."

The feature was first reported by Phillip Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped who also explained that "the feature was immediately useful, because I had mistyped a word in my phrase search, and Google still found the page I was looking for." In a comment posted to Phillip's article, Matt Cutts from Google explained how the feature actually works:

"Looks like this behavior only happens in some rare circumstances, namely when the query
- is in quotes
- has no results
- triggers our spelling correction

Which is pretty rare. I talked to someone here and I expect that a new push will change this by the end of next week. Thanks to pfr at Google for the quick analysis and being willing to push the change for this, by the way," he wrote.