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CEUR-WS.org/Vol-443 - Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Se. Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? - ReadWr. In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information.

Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? - ReadWr

Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's name? The answers to these and other factual questions are now displayed above natural search results in Google and the information is structured in the traditional subject-predicate-object format, or "triples," of semantic web parlance. The answers aren't found structured that way on the web pages they come from - Google appears to be parsing the semantic structure from semi or unstructured data.