Is Google Going to Marry their Knowledge Base with their Search Engine?
Google has been answering queries with its search engine for over 15 years, and has been showing us it can answer questions with facts from its Browsable Fact Repository and/or the Google Knowledge Graph. Might Google at some point bring the two together? To a degree, Google has been merging some results, showing a set […]
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Google’s Browseable Fact Repository – an Early Knowledge Graph
In earlier days at Google, when you used to ask a question, you could sometimes get a response providing answers to questions such as: “When was George W. Bush’s birth-date?”. We knew that Google could answer some questions like that, even if it might have been challenging, but we didn’t have much of a clue […]
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Was Google Maps a Proof of Concept for Google’s Knowledge Base Efforts?
Not everything we read in a paper or in a patent from a search engine is something that happens in real life; but sometimes it is. I like coming across a patent now and then that is dated but does a good job of describing something that happened as set out in that patent or […]
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Looking at Peer Document Titles and Anchor Text when Collecting Facts about an Entity
During a civil or criminal legal case, the prosecuting side needs to present evidence to a judge or a jury. Each individual piece of evidence doesn’t have to prove the innocence or guilt of the party being tried by itself, but the combination of that evidence has to meet a certain standard. For a criminal […]
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Extracting Facts for Entities from Sources such as Wikipedia Titles and Infoboxes
There are a number of patents from Google, both granted patents and pending patent applications, that describe ways that Google might learn about entities and about facts associated with those by extracting the information from the Web itself instead of relying upon people submitting information to knowledge bases such as Freebase. We learned from Google’s […]
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Identifying Entity Types and the Transfiguraton of Search @Google
The World Wide Web is a vast resource for information. At the same time it is extremely distributed. A particular type of data such as restaurant lists may be scattered across thousands of independent information sources in many different formats. In this paper, we consider the problem of extracting a relation for such a data […]
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Semantic SEO or Semantic Search?
A few years ago, I presented at SES San Jose and someone asked me what they should be keeping an eye upon in SEO. I told them “named entities.” I was reminded of that conversation as I gave a talk today about named entities and other semantics. I presented this morning at San Jose McEnery […]
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Google on Finding Entities: A Tale of Two Michael Jacksons
I’ve been saying for at least a couple of years that Google’s local search is a proof of concept for the search giant to use on how to find and understand entities. With local search, Google goes out and looks for a mention of a business on the Web, especially when it it accompanied by […]
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Finding Entity Names in Google’s Knowledge Graph
Most of us searchers and site owners and search engine optimizers are familiar with Google’s Link Graph, and how Google uses the connections between websites to help in ranking pages on the Web. In part, Google looks at the relevance of the content of a page compared to a query that a searcher enters at […]
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How Google Might Identify Synonyms for Entities Using Anchor Text
When Google indexes the Web, it’s often been convenient to think about the search engine running two different methods or approaches that seem to run in parallel. One of those involves the crawling and indexing and ranking of pages on the web (and images, videos, news, podcasts, and other documents). The other approach doesn’t look […]
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Entity Associations with Websites and Related Entities
When we talk about how web sites are related, it’s not unusual for us to talk about links between sites and pages. Google pays a lot of attention between such links, and they are at the heart of one of its most well known ranking signal – PageRank. PageRank is now more than 15 years […]
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How Google Finds ‘Known For’ Terms for Entities
Google finds terms and phrases to associate with entities that can be considered terms of interest for businesses, locations, and other entities. These terms can influence what shows up in search results and in knowledge panels for those entities. Consider it part of a growing knowledge base of concepts, entities, attributes for entities, and keywords […]
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