This seems to be about a change where, if you search for "time toronto", it'll show you the time in Toronto in a mostly blank page and a button labeled "Show all results".
Very clicky-batey title.
Very clicky-batey title.
Now it doesn't do that, by default. Yeah, there's button to do it, so it's not like anybody can't access the results anymore. But certainly from the perspective of the first experience, this is a huge change.
Assuming whatever A/B-style test is currently running is "successful", it would be reasonable to assume that this feature would be rolled out to other queries where Google assumes users want an answer to a specific question. That's something that could have a significant impact on the web generally, given Google's dominant position.
Google confuses terms. Whenever searching for something rare, it just "autocorrects" the search term to something common. It often modifies product model numbers and gives results you didn't ask for.
It helpfully drops search terms the user explicitly provides it. It doesn't even help to put + in front of the words, like some years ago.
There's advanced search, but the results are only marginally better and it's horrible to use.
BUT: the underlying point is still valid, these are not sear results, that come from a search engine. These are answers, from an answer engine.
(But still made you click ;) )