Hi, I did something very similar to Google Squared in small php script a couple of years ago:
http://iandavis.com/2009/lodgrid/?store=space&query=jupiter&columns=6 It uses linked data held in the Talis Platform and the platform's full text search service. More examples linked from the main page: http://iandavis.com/2009/lodgrid/ Ian On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.ocon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > This talk might have been seen by some of you; but was certainly new to me: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCSDOuqv1A&feature=autoshare > Much of this is an exploration of how google is making use of freebase's > underlying linked data to better understand what they are crawling - > deriving what something is by examining its attributes; and automatically > creating something like linked data from it. > > Additionally; it talks about Google squared - this tool appears to be > heavily powered by freebase data; as well as derived data from the web. I > was fairly impressed by the mix of understanding a user query and rendering > results as actual entities (one of the few non-facet based UIs I have seen). > For instance: "territorial authorities in new zealand" > http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=territorial+authorities+in+new+zealand > Whilst this is not using the typical linked data technology stack of RDF, > SPARQL, open licenced data, etc; it certainly shows you what can be done > with data in a graph structure; plus a UI which is a cross between a > spreadsheet and a search result. > > >