Filed under: chain-gang,international,knowledge,meta,metrics,wikipedia
Last year Google acquired Metaweb, providing a reliable future to their many projects, including Refine and Freebase.
From earlier this year, here’s a quote from Amit Singhal, Google’s SVP responsible for their Knowledge Graph:
We hope this added intelligence will give you a more complete picture of your interest, provide smarter search results, and pique your curiosity on new topics. 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 dreamt of building. Enjoy your lifelong journey of discovery, made easier by Google Search, so you can spend less time searching and more time doing what you love.
In the near future, I expect both Google’s knowledge graph, and the increasing awareness of the usefulness of such graphs, to change the structure and scope of industrial-scale knowledge processing. Thanks to all those working on these tools and solutions; see you in 2013!