Thursday, May 17, 2012

Google gets smarter with the Knowledge Graph

Google announced a new feature in the search engine that saves users  time. Called the Knowledge Graph, the feature provides information about the search term directly in the page of search results, such as demographics of the cities, dates of birth or names of painters of the children of a scientist.


Today works like this: if you are interested in knowing what are the most important scientific discoveries of Marie Curie, research scientist in the name of Google and immediately click on the link to access Wikipedia. With the novelty of running the algorithm will examine what you have searched and not only displays the traditional organic results, but also useful data in the right sidebar. thus:

You go to Wikipedia less often.
In the example, Google said in which Marie Curie institutions studied, date of birth and even the names of the children, and to suggest related personalities such as Albert Einstein and Louis Pasteur, the guy who helped to remove the head of the people who life could be created from dirty socks or some other lifeless object.

The seeker now also provides direct answers to a question asked by you, leaving Google more like a life of Wolfram Alpha - the graphs of functions it already does for some time. Google Operating System exemplified some terms that return quick results: distance from Earth to the Moon, members of the Queen, the old Mark Twain and the Star Wars movies, in the order they were released.


Knowledge Graph Data can also be accessed through the interface and mobile applications from Android and iOS 2.2 + 4.0 +. The feature is only gradually being distributed to users in the U.S. and comes shortly after Microsoft announced similar changes in the engine and Bing.