Google has made a major change to its search engine. The company announced it is expanding its “Passage Ranking” technology to more languages globally. This technology helps Google Search find specific answers within long web pages. It means users get more precise results for their questions. Passage Ranking was first introduced in late 2020. It was initially only available for English searches. Google explained how it works. Search engines usually look at the whole page to understand its topic. Passage Ranking lets Google understand just a small part of a page. It can identify a single passage that answers the user’s question directly. This is helpful when a long page covers many different topics. Before this technology, a page might not rank well for a specific question. The page might be too broad. Passage Ranking changes that. Google can now pull out the exact relevant section. It then uses that passage to rank the page for that specific query. This expansion brings Passage Ranking to many new languages. Google did not list every single language included. They said it covers a large number of languages used worldwide. The goal is to improve search results for more users. People searching in languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, and others should see benefits. Google expects users will find helpful information faster. They will get answers even if the information is buried deep inside a lengthy document. Website owners also gain from this update. Their content has a better chance of being found. Good, detailed content on a specific topic within a larger page can now rank higher. This applies even if the overall page is about something else. Google believes this makes search more useful everywhere.
(Google Expands “Passage Ranking” to More Languages)