It seems that Google has started rolling out the structured data search update that it talked about a few months back, or at least is testing it on a large scale. Several types of searches, those with immediate answers, will not get an info box to the right of the search results, similar to the Google+ box, with info... |
9 May 2012
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Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, has announced one of its largest undertakings to date and the first new big project since 2006, Wikidata. Wikidata, as the name suggests, aims to be a Wikipedia for data, or, alternatively, a way for information stored by Wikimedia to act more like a database than an encycl... |
31 March 2012
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Google is running a very interesting experiment with structured data, it is now adding a side panel with additional info for some searches, as some users have spotted.For example, a search for the artist Rihanna would surface the regular organic results, but also a panel dubbed 'Sources' on the right which ... |
7 November 2011
10:50 GMT |
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There's been a lot of talk about web markup and structured data lately and for good reason, search engines could do a much better job at discerning the amount of information available on the web if that information is tagged and ordered. The latest move is one of the most interesting, Google has now started supp... |
7 June 2011
14:29 GMT |
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Google is experimenting with an interesting new feature for its Google Video search engine. Searches for a band or an artist will also list albums by that artist, enabling users to restrict the search to videos from one particular album. The feature isn't available to everyone yet, but it's yet another exam... |
24 May 2011
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Google is expanding the usefulness of its Public Data Explorer tool by finally enabling regular users to upload their own data for analysis, visualization and sharing. There is already a wealth of data from reliable sources in the Google Public Data Explorer, but this should make the tool a valuable resource to a lot... |
17 February 2011
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Google Squared is turning one today. The experimental search engine made its debut in Google Labs a year ago, the first step in trying to make sense of all the data scattered around the web. It was an interesting approach and the technology showed promise, but it clearly wasn’t ready for the big time. A lot has... |
13 May 2010
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Google sure likes data and numbers and, to share the love with everyone, it launched a brand-new tool in Labs, Google Public Data Explorer, which provides a way of visualizing the various data sets the search engine has been incorporating. The tool adds even more data sources to the ones Google had already been using... |
9 March 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Google just announced the addition of a wealth of new data coming straight from the World Bank. The data covers all sorts of statistics and numbers related to geopolitical information, things like Internet users in the US over time or GDP growth of almost any country in the world. The data is presented in new OneBox... |
12 November 2009
04:17 GMT |
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The web as we known it now can be incredibly useful but it's also incredibly chaotic. Many have been clamoring about the next phase of the web, the semantic web, which adds meaning to all of the data scattered around and some are trying slightly different approaches at organizing the information. One such projec... |
13 October 2009
09:08 GMT |
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Structured data is seen as the next best thing in online search. Well, that and real-time data and social media. In any case, while Google is looking to make its results more real-time, it's also focusing on organizing all of the information online, structuring and labeling it. Google Squared was launched severa... |
10 October 2009
04:04 GMT |
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