Google's machine learning now writes featured snippets descriptions

A Wired article explains how Google is now using machine learning to understand and produce featured snippets in the Google search results. Google "just went live" on their desktop search results with what they call "sentence-compression algorithms." This sentence compression is able to learn how "to take a long sentence or paragraph from a relevant page on the web and extract the upshot -- the information you're looking for," Wired added. In short, Google is getting better at looking at content on the web and extracting the specific nuggets of information that directly answer the query. With Google Home, Google Assistant and the increase of featured snippets in the search results, it is no surprise Google is advancing their technology around this challenge.