Google enhances search service with Knowledge Graph
Internet giant, Google has enhanced its flagship online search engine to include sets of associated facts with each user query.
The enhancement termed as `Knowledge Graph' shows much deeper understanding of the questions typed by the users. Google's knowledge graph will include associated data about a specific search query. Earlier enhancements like Search Plus Your World and Universal Search aimed at expanding the data returned by the Google search engine or optimized the speed of delivery of outputs. However, the new Google's Knowledge Graph is an aim to make the search engine simply smarter.
The search engine will now display a set of facts in the right-hand sidebar panel along with the usual search results. This may mean that users looking for popular facts about a personality or any other object will simply find the extract on the Google search page, which avoilds the need to clock on any of the link presented by the search engine.
Google SVP of engineering Amit Singhal said that the enhancement comes as a result of Google's understanding of what the users want and a better sense of how facts are related.
"We've always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want," he explained in a blog post. "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," said Singhal.