Move over, pandas. Fly away, hummingbirds. Waddle away, penguins. Google has a new animal friend: crows.But unlike its past associations with the animal world, this one
isn’t about SEO or algorithms — it’s a new search trick that adds
distance calculation to Google’s OneBox feature. (The OneBox is where
Google often presents immediate answers to search queries rather than
just presenting links relevant to the query.)
As Google explained late Friday,
the OneBox can now answer how far it is between two remote locations.
It does the measurement “as the crow flies.” Google’s examples were
Hawaii and Siberia — a US state and a country. It also works when asked
about two remote cities, like Honolulu and Oslo.
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