Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Ranu Jain: This new algorithm update is to return better results and this name comes from being “precise and fast". This algo enables Google to better handle “conversational” search queries.
To understand this, take eg of these two queries:
“Statue of Liberty pictures” “Give me some pictures of Statue of Liberty”
Google wants to process “real” speech patterns and wants to understand what is on your mind, well before its on your mind.
You need to understand your prospect’s possible intents and semantic relevance is going to be a new thing. ;
Martino Mosna: It's not an antispam update so you don't really need to "stay safe" from anything.
Hummingbird it's about better query understanding.
Unique Websites: I believe that one way to benefit from it is to have some pages that answer the questions your readers might ask. As Ranu Jain says Hummingbird is trying to answer conversational queries.
For example, rather than a title and H1 of ;"Hummingbird content", try ;"How do I write content for Hummingbird?".
Some writers have suggested FAQs and pages answering questions might help.
What is Humming bird algorithm? What is the best way to stay safe from hummingbird algorithm 
