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The Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's search results with semantic-search information gathered from a wide variety of sources. Knowledge Graph display was added to Google's search engine in 2012, starting in the United States, having been announced on May 16, 2012. It provides structured and detailed information about the topic in addition to a list of links to other sites. The goal is that users would be able to use this information to resolve their query without having to navigate to other sites and assemble the information themselves. The short summary provided in the knowledge graph is often used as a spoken answer in Google Now searches.

History

According to Google, the information in the Knowledge Graph is derived from many sources, including the CIA World Factbook, Freebase, and Misplaced Pages. The feature is similar in intent to answer engines such as Ask Jeeves and Wolfram Alpha and efforts such as Linked Data and DBpedia.

As of 2012, its semantic network contained over 570 million objects and more than 18 billion facts about and relationships between different objects that are used to understand the meaning of the keywords entered for the search.

On December 4, 2012, the Knowledge Graph was introduced in seven more languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Italian.

According to some news websites, the implementation of Google's Knowledge Graph has played a role in the page view decline of various language versions of Misplaced Pages.

In August of 2014, Google announced a new initiative, the Knowledge Vault, which derives much of its data from the Knowledge Graph and the sources thereof, as well as harvesting its own data, ranking its reliability and compiling all results into a database of over 1.6 billion facts collected by machine learning algorithms.

In November 2014, Google began displaying social profile icons for certain brands, companies and musicians in their respective Knowledge Graph results. The social icons linked to their social network profiles which included Facebook, Twitter, Google +, YouTube, Instagram, Myspace and LinkedIn. Months after, Google released guidelines for how to enable this feature if you would like to have your social profiles displayed in the Knowledge Graph.

On December 16, 2014 the Freebase and Knowledge Graph team at Google announced that Freebase would shut-down in late 2015 and that they would help to transfer all of its data over to Wikidata.

Competition

Microsoft Bing's digital assistant, named Satori Knowledge Base, was revealed to the public in mid-2013, but further details were not released. Senior director for Bing Stefan Weitz explained:

We have had internal debates about when to ship something. We could come out with something now like them, but it wouldn't be state of the art. It's too constrained to be an agent now. We are not shipping until we have something more revolutionary than evolutionary.

Conversational search

During the Google I/O conference in May 2013, Google's Amit Singhal presented on the future of search, explaining that a search engine's three primary functions will need to evolve and that search will need to: 1. Answer, 2. Converse, and 3. Anticipate. As part of his keynote talk, Singhal stated, "A computer you can talk to? And it will answer everything you ask it?"

See also

• Semantic integration
• Linked data
• DBpedia
• Knowledge Vault

References

1. ^ Singhal, Amit (May 16, 2012). "Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, Not Strings". Official Blog (of Google). Retrieved May 18, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
2. (registration required) Waters, Richard (May 16, 2012). "Google To Unveil Search Results Overhaul". Financial Times. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
3. Bohn, Dieter. "Google Now: behind the predictive future of search". The Verge. Vox Media, Inc. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
4. Staff (December 4, 2012). "Get smarter answers from the Knowledge Graph from Português to 日本語 to русский". Google. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
5. Akesson, Andrew (August 27, 2014). "Google My Business Profiles Start Ranking In Non-Branded Searches". Retrieved September 9, 2014.
6. Newton, Casey (December 14, 2012). "How Google is taking the Knowledge Graph global". CNET.
7. Brown, Aaron (December 12, 2012). "Get smarter answers from the Knowledge Graph from Português to 日本語 to русский". Inside Search. Google.
8. Orlowski, Andrew (January 13, 2014). "Google stabs Misplaced Pages in the front". The Register. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
9. Kohs, Gregory (January 6, 2014). "Google's Knowledge Graph Boxes: killing Misplaced Pages?". Wikipediocracy. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
10. Marshall, Gary. "Like Harvey Dent, Google has become Two Face". TechRadar. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
11. Andrieu, Olivier (January 14, 2014). "Le Knowledge Graph de Google ferait baisser le trafic de Misplaced Pages" (in French). Abondance. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
12. "Google's Knowledge Graph Finally Shows Social Networks Not Named Google+". Search Engine Land.
13. "Specify your social profiles to Google". Google Developers.
14. "Transferring Data to Wikidata and Shutting Down". Google+. December 16, 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
15. Dan Farber (July 30, 2013). "Microsoft's Bing seeks enlightenment with Satori". Cnet. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
16. Google (May 15, 2013). "Google I/O 2013: Keynote". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
17. Jessica Lee (May 16, 2013). "OK Google: 'The End of Search as We Know It'". Search Engine Watch. Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2013.

External links

• Official website

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