Google has launched the BERT algorithm worldwide in more than 70 languages. This was announced by search employee Danny Sallivan on Twitter.
BERT, our new way for Google Search to better understand language, is now rolling out to over 70 languages worldwide. It initially launched in Oct. for US English. You can read more about BERT below & a full list of languages is in this thread …. https://t.co/NuKVdg6HYM– Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 9, 2019
As it became known yesterday, Russian is also among these languages. There are 72 of them. The whole list can be found in tweet comments Google
Recall that the introduction of BERT in the search in English was launched in October.
At that time, the algorithm was used for 10% of requests in English in
USA.
For highlighted descriptions (featured snippets or featured snippets) BERT initially
Used in all languages for which this feature is supported.