Google Search just got a hell of a lot more advanced

The next time you’re wondering which U.S. President was in office when the Angels won the World Series — or something equally as random — the Google app shouldn’t have any issues helping you find the answer. Google on Monday said its search app is getting better at understanding complex, multi-part questions, and is now starting to understand the meaning of what you’re asking. “We can now break down a query to understand the semantics of each piece … so we can get at the intent behind the entire question,” Product Manager Satyajeet Salgar wrote in a blog post. “That lets us traverse the Knowledge Graph much more reliably to find the right facts and compose a useful answer. And we can build on this base to answer harder questions.” Using the example above, Google would recognize that you were talking about the Angels baseball team, not a spiritual being, and look up World Series winners by year to find that the Anaheim, Calif. team won in 2002. The app would then reference a list of Presidents in the country you identified — the U.S. — and tell you that the U.S. President in office when the Angels won the World Series in 2002 was George W. Bush.