In a recent keynote address delivered at the SMX West Q&A session held at San Jose between March 11 – 13, 2014, Amit Singhal, Senior VP and Software Engineer at Google talked about predictive technology used in Google Now http://www.google.com/landing/now/ and how it would impact the future of search and internet.
Singhal explained that Google Now was built for mobile devices and keeping in mind the needs of mobile users because future growth of search and internet was to come from these segments. As a matter of fact Hummingbird was also introduced by Google keeping in mind the future of the mobile platform and that a humane approach was required towards search that was organic and based on human thought process rather than based on algorithmic calculations.