Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

By EmmaZahn on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 1:10pm |

Until now, Google has been an unprecedented signposter of knowledge. It has not "known" the answer to anything itself but it has had an awfully clever way of directing you to exactly the place you can find out. In some senses, that attribute is in the process of changing. This year, Google will roll out what it calls its Knowledge Graph, the closest any system has yet come to creating what Tim Berners-Lee, originator of the web itself, called "the semantic web", the version that had understanding as well as data, that could itself provide answers, not links to answers.

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http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/19/google-search-knowledge-graph-singhal-interview