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The holiday at Yahoo Inc. headquarters right now is “Groundhog Day.” Once again, Yahoo YHOO, +0.65% is getting letters from activist investors. Once again, a high-profile chief executive (who also happens to be a woman), is under fire, with many Over the past few years, virtual assistants have become a standard feature on mobile and desktop devices alike. Siri is still a fixture in Apple’s advertising campaigns for the iPhone and iPad, and Cortana has gone from a neat addition to Windows Phone Patent 3: Rich Content For Query Answers In February, Search Engine Land published an article about how Google displays rich answers for 19.45 percent of queries. But even in less than a year, that number is dramatically rising. The same company that did When was the last time you used Yahoo Answers? Can't remember? You probably haven't used Yahoo Real Estate, Notepad or Local in awhile either. The Sunnyvale, California-based Web giant lists roughly 60 products and services in the US, but the portfolio is Web search is an ancient technology by Internet standards. Heck, if Google were a person, it would almost be old enough to leave home for college. Yet the company is in the fight for its life in search, an area it seemed to have sewn up. Google (oops Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the most common queries .

This query will receive similar search results as the much-shorter keyword phrase, "top level of the food chain." Google's answer is "predator." "Imagine that RankBrain is connecting that original long and complicated query" to the shorter one, which is You never needed to phrase a search as a question in order for Google to provide an answer, but that didn't stop many of us from doing so anyway. And this was before smartphones and tablets started prompting us to ask questions using our voice. Fortunately "Google Doodle highlights where our culture is headed. Our supposed evolutionary ancestry is increasingly being celebrated — but it's nothing more than a major tenet of the religion of naturalism," Ham wrote on his Answers in Genesis blog in response. For some, Google Search has become something of a personal assistant. As Google’s voice recognition algorithms have improved, the feature’s ability to fetch information and obey commands on the fly has become more and more useful. Today, Google made .