There’s been much speculation around semantic search since Google bought Metaweb in 2010. Two years on, two days before Facebook’s long awaited IPO, and less than a week since Bing inveiled their impressive new social search redesign, Google brings us The Knowledge Graph.
This is probably the biggest development in search since the arrival of universal (images, videos, news, local, etc) in 2007.
Comments from the Product Management Directors:
“We’re in the early phases of moving from being an information engine to becoming a knowledge engine and these enhancements are one step in that direction. As we grow the knowledge graph and make it larger and richer, we’re really excited at the opportunity we have to understand more about users’ queries, to understand more of what’s our there on the web, and intelligently connect the two to each other”.
Read more about this:
- Where it all began
- Introducing The Knowledge Graph
- Google Goes Back to What It Does Well: Finding Things
- Richard Walters in the FT
- BBC: A more ‘human’ search engine
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