How Search Works
Has anyone deciphered the fat-mustache diagram in the "Query Understanding" circle? It's in the Algorithms section.<p>At first I thought it was supposed to represent a Gaussian-like probability distribution. But when I clicked on it, the resulting animation showed a series of such distributions getting flattened by some kind of distribution-flattening hydraulic press.  The accompanying caption: "Gets to the deeper meaning of the words you type."<p>If I was confused before, now I was completely lost.<p>How is deeper meaning represented by distribution flattening?  I'd think it would be just the opposite, raising probability mass around the likely meanings, not spreading it out into a uniform distribution over all meanings.<p>Baffling.<p>If anyone has figured it out, please do share.<p>(Maybe I'm taking the diagrams too seriously.)<p>EDITED TO ADD:  New option:  If you don't have any clue what it means either, come up with an entertaining <i>yet plausible</i> story that fits the hydraulic-press-vs-mustaches animation and share that story instead.<p>EDITED TO ADD:  Example:  At Google’s new eco-friendly data centers, NLP computations are performed by genetically enhanced inchworms. Difficult queries, however, can cause the inchworms to get cricks in their backs. In such cases, Google’s innovative back-massager descends and restores the inchworms to their preferred position (prone), from which they can return to their computations with renewed vigor.