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London: After
revolutionising the Internet, Google has now unleashed its
next-generation technology - 'Knowledge Graph' - which can locate
even more relevant information for you than ever before, on the
right-hand side of the traditional results.
"The Knowledge Graph also helps us understand the relationships
between things. Marie Curie is a person in the Knowledge Graph,
and she had two children, one of whom also won a Nobel Prize, as
well as a husband, Pierre Curie, who claimed a third Nobel Prize
for the family," said Google software engineer Sarveshwar Dudd.
"All of these are linked in our graph. It's not just a catalogue
of objects; it also models all these inter-relationships. It's the
intelligence between these different entities that's the key,"
said Dudd, the Daily Mail reports.
"We're proud of our first baby step - the Knowledge Graph - which
will enable us to make search more intelligent, moving us closer
to the 'Star Trek computer' that I've always dreamed of building,"
added Dudd.
Google avers this is a "critical first step towards building the
next generation of search, which taps into the collective
intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like
people do."
Google said the search engine pulls the facts, figures and images
from across the web - so it is not relying on the traditional
search engine trick of pulling data from Wikipedia.
Amit Singhal, Google's senior vice-president of engineering, said:
"Search is a lot about discovery - the basic human need to learn
and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of
hard work by you, the user. So today I'm really excited to launch
the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information
quickly and easily."
Explaining the concept, Singhal said: "Take a query like Taj Mahal.
For more than four decades, search has essentially been about
matching keywords to queries. To a search engine the words Taj
Mahal have been just that - two words.
"But we all know that Taj Mahal has a much richer meaning. You
might think of one of the world's most beautiful monuments, or a
Grammy Award-winning musician, or possibly even a casino in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, or depending on when you last ate, the
nearest Indian restaurant," said Singhal.
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