After Panda, Penguins and Hummingbirds, google has a new animal friend is Crow.
But as not like past associations with the animal world, this update is not about SEO or algorithms and today it is new search trick that adds distance calculation to Google’s OneBox feature. That OneBox- is where google often presents immediate answers to search queries rather than just presenting links relevant to the query. As in simple One Box can now answer how far it is between two remote locations. It does the measurement “as the crow flies”
For instance, It also works when we asked about two remote cities like Mumbai and Toronto.
Google also says the new One Box works with “far-flung locales, beyond what you can drive or walk.” Certainly, if you ask how far it is between, say, Kashmir and Kanyakumari, you don’t get the “as the crow flies” answers — you get a OneBox with the distance measured by driving mileage (and the directions from point A to point B).
Google presents this as a search feature you can use with voice search on Google’s search app (both iOSand Android). It also works on Google desktop search, which is where I did the screenshot(s) above.
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