In The Future, Google Will Make Searching For Bigfoot Much Easier


Google is undergoing a years-long process to enter the "next generation of search." According the Wall Street Journal, in the near future, the search engine will better match search queries with a database containing hundreds of millions of "entities"-- people, places and things-- which the company has quietly amassed in the past two years.

The new search algorithm should be able to handle "semantic search" queries and complex questions such as: "What's the Bigfoot population in Lake Tahoe?" Google should be able to provide the answer instead of just links to other sites.

Via Engadget:
A search engine should be about more than just keywords. MC Hammer believes that passionately and Google must do too, because over the next few months and years it'll gradually adjust its own algorithms to put greater emphasis on "semantic search". Under this system, search queries are run through a vast knowledge database that discovers relationships with other words and facts. A Mountain View exec explained it thus: If you search for "Lake Tahoe", you won't just get ranked websites containing those two words but also key attributes about the lake, such as its location, altitude, average temperature and Bigfoot population. If a piece of knowledge isn't the in the ever-expanding database, the search engine will still use semantic search to help it recognize and evaluate information held on websites. In doing this, Big G hopes to compete with social networks that are amassing their own valuable (and sometimes intrusive) databases full of personal information, while also encouraging people to stay longer on its site and see more targeted ads. Google, who is Viviane Reding?

Comments

  1. I was so excited when Google Earth first launched, what a prize! I used to go to the ASU map room for that kind of information, tedious and partial.
    And, it was the little "footprints" placed on my favorite remote areas that I noticed, and were my real introduction to the Bigfoot phenomenon.
    Google allowed anyone to post anything on the main layer then and BFRO made use of it. I may never have discovered Bigfoot had it been the seperate layer it is today.
    I read over a period of a year, or two, almost all they posted.
    And then went looking myself. LO. Bigfoots are real and are some form of us, a large thinking primate.
    Reading this (and considering the new FaceBook format and all the third party connectedness one must search out to opt out) it really is mind boggling what is available to us all so easily.
    What will we do with all this information?

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  2. Google employs MIB's and own you.

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  3. So in other words, it will be taking those things like calculator one step forward?

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