Last updated on 6 December 2012
Google, the Mountain View giant has just launched a new function for its search engine in France: the Knowledge Graph.
It took 8 months for Google to integrate a powerful semantic tool already deployed in several English-speaking countries. This is good news. This new function brings real added value to the search engine.
Knowledge Graph offers in the Google results page (in the right column) a series of information, images, maps and links related to your initial search. A huge knowledge base that recognises more than 500 million names of people, companies and places. Google will link its results with semantic information from many sources.
The tool offered by Google, and integrated into the interface of its results pages, offers structured information focused on the subject of the research. To help the searcher, Google will also offer advanced search functions to go further from similar links.
The ‘Knowledge Graph’ allows you to search for and obtain relevant information on places, buildings, objects, or people: famous monuments, personalities, cities, sports teams, films, celestial objects, works of art … This function is being propagated for France. It will also be available on mobile versions, smartphones and tablets, of the search engine.
In the classroom.
Linking information with each other, looking for connections to broaden the scope of an exploration are basic notions to pass on to students. After targeting the completeness and in-depth search on the web of information buried in a web page, Google offers a new function that gives a new dimension to its tool and how to search on the web.
From search engine, Google could turn into response engine. Google has opened a specific page to explain how this new function works.
Link: Google Knowledge Graph
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