How Search Works
Has anyone deciphered the fat-mustache diagram in the "Query Understanding" circle? It's in the Algorithms section.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."If I was confused before, now I was completely lost.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.Baffling.If anyone has figured it out, please do share.(Maybe I'm taking the diagrams too seriously.)EDITED TO ADD:  New option:  If you don't have any clue what it means either, come up with an entertaining yet plausible story that fits the hydraulic-press-vs-mustaches animation and share that story instead.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.