Google has launched its new search tool, Knowledge Graph that will give direct answers in its results instead of simply providing links in an attempt to improve its core search business. Now, when you search for a popular place, person or thing, a floating panel on the right side of the results page will have a summarized answer for you, along with some related information.

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Knowledge Graph that will give direct
answers in its results instead of simply
providing links in an attempt to improve its
core search business. Now, when you...

3. The Knowledge Graph feature might just be the largest search launch in
Google’s history. In fact, Google says that this feature has already
surpassed the launch of Google News and Google Image in terms of
information available on the first day — and it will obviously continue to
grow as more collections and relations are being added. And for an
online community that’s getting sick of all the hype on social search,
Google’s renewed focus on improving the key search business is a
refreshing change.

4. Google has been working on the Knowledge Graph for the past 2 years
and have already made a database with 500 million entities and 3.5
billion defining connections and attributes like related searches. The
Knowledge Graph draws information from a collection of information
publicly available from sources like Freebase, Metaweb, Wikipedia,
Google Books and World CIA Fact Book, among others.

5. Norton Scientific Collection reports that Google is not aiming to give
false information with is Knowledge Graph but to actually draw
relationships between objects in an attempt to figure what a user
wants to know. For example, if searching for a prominent figure in
history, the KG may include family details as well as his notable
works and other contributions.

6. Amit Singhal, Google’s senior vice president of engineering, said in a
blog post, “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.”

7. The rollout of this new feature will result in users being presented with
summarized information about the query term along with the classic search
results links.

8. This is the fulfillment of Google’s previous promise to start employing
“semantic” algorithms aiming to improved search through automatically
connecting related ideas. Basically, its goal is to offer users contextualized
answer and more helpful details while anticipating next queries. In short,
Knowledge Graph is designed to make users find the exact answers even
more quickly. Also in the right panel, there will be related links to help users
discover other stuff that are connected to their search. It is like making a
non-linear association to something that might come up in a conversation
among friends.

9. This is a feature that has considerable long-term applications for
online search and it is obviously still a work in progress for Google.

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