Google revamps search, tries to think more like a person. With Knowledge Graph, a Google search will ask if you want the galaxy, TV show or rock band Google introduces Knowledge Graph, a revamped effort to make search more intuitiveNew tool divides search terms into most likely categoriesKnowledge Graph begins rolling out Wednesday to users in the U.S.
(CNN) -- So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings. " Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs. Google on Wednesday announced Knowledge Graph, a significant change to how search results are delivered that the company believes will make their search engine think more like a human.
"The web pages we [currently] return for the search 'kings,' they're all good," Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, told CNN in an interview. Google develops 'smart glasses' The user can then click on one of those boxes to only get results for the specific topic they were searching. Sci-Tech / Internet : Google revamps search engine to think like a person. Google announced a major revamp of its web domineering search engine on Wednesday, just days after Microsoft’s rival Bing service announced upgrades of its own.
Google’s new search powers are encapsulated in what the company calls a Knowledge Graph, in which the new algorithms attempt to understand exactly what people are looking for and present basic answers on the results page, without users needing to click on any secondary links. “We’ve always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want,” blogged Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice-president of engineering. “And we can now sometimes help answer your next question before you’ve asked it, because the facts we show are informed by what other people have searched for.” Using what Mr. “This used to be the stuff of dreams because we didn’t really know how to accomplish it,” Mr. Google makes search engine 'smarter' Thursday 17 May 2012 14.56 Google has begun making its search engine smarter in a major upgrade that looks beyond query words to figure out what people are actually seeking online.
"Knowledge Graph" technology built to recognise people, places or things signified by keywords took its fledgling steps in the US with the hope of eventually extending it to Google searches worldwide. "The Knowledge Graph is built to understand real things in the world," said Google fellow Ben Gomes, who has worked on search at the company for more than a decade.
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