Qwiki was: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-18 Thread Henry Story
By the way, there are some other projects like http://www.qwiki.com/ that clearly do work semantically, and offer some of the features touted by google. Henry On 18 May 2012, at 09:36, Ivan Herman wrote: On May 18, 2012, at 06:51 , Eric Franzon wrote: Ivan, Actually, some modest

Re: Qwiki was: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-18 Thread Christos K
Hi there's also http://www.wolframalpha.com which has been around for ages. What is fascinating about Google though is that it will scale semantic search to boundaries that not many other projects can possibly handle or anticipate (both in terms of size and usage - queries, clickthrough data,

Re: Qwiki was: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-18 Thread adasal
I think I see the same situation everyone else does. Huge corporate chasing (as ever) share price. Closed system which may or may not have an API. Sweeping the mind of 'the many'. Meanwhile there are academics, open committees and some small businesses pursuing a more particular vision. What value

Re: Qwiki was: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

2012-05-18 Thread Henry Story
On 18 May 2012, at 13:05, adasal wrote: I think I see the same situation everyone else does. Huge corporate chasing (as ever) share price. yes, or trying to find ways of reducing the share price of others. Facebook's IPO is this week. Closed system which may or may not have an API.