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Google Knowledge Graph Going Global For English Speakers, Will Appear In Auto-Complete Results

Google just announced two updates coming tomorrow to the Knowledge Graph feature that it launched in May. The Knowledge Graph is the summary that now appears to the right of the results for US searchers. This allows users to see factual summaries related to their search queries (biographies of notable figures, tour dates for musicians, the cast of movies, etc.) and disambiguate their searches (focus their search on Rio the movie, Rio the casino, or Rio de Janeiro the city). Starting tomorrow, Googler Shashi Thakur says the Knowledge Graph will...

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Published By: Tech Crunch - Wednesday, 8 August, 2012

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