Thanks Trey, that's very helpful.

Pine

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pine,
>
> Google's underlying database is called Knowledge Graph, and some people
> call it that
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/google-knowledge-graph_n_1521292.html>.
>  Microsoft
> Bing's similar knowledge base is called Satori Knowledge Base. Looks like
> Google calls the sidebar a Knowledge Panel
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph#Knowledge_panels>
>  (original source
> <https://support.google.com/business/answer/6331288?hl=en>).
>
> I would've called it search summary, but some people seem to use that to
> refer to the snippets under the title/link for a result.
>
> "Knowledge panel" seems to be reasonably generic, unambiguous, and
> definitely understandable with some minimal explanation. A few quick
> googles show that both "knowledge panel" and "knowledge graph" are being
> genericized <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark>, and you
> can find people using both when discussing Bing, though Microsoft probably
> don't use either term.
>
> Also of note, while a *lot* of info in Google's knowledge panel comes
> from Wikipedia, but not all of it, so "Wikipedia sidebar" would not be
> quite accurate.
>
> Hope that helps,
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Discovery,
>>
>> Is there a particular term for search engine sidebars of Wikipedia
>> content? For example, do we call them "search engine previews" or
>> "Wikipedia sidebars on search pages"? I imagine that Google and Microsoft
>> have certain terminology, and I'd like to be consistent when I'm referring
>> to them in the LearnWiki videos, provided that the term is something that
>> the average user would understand.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pine
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