Re: Google's structured seach talk / Google squared UI

Nice!

But unfortunately I have to choose a platform store. Shouldn't I be able to
search for "jupiter" and return results from nasa and dbpedia?

Juan Sequeda
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Ian Davis <lists@iandavis.com> wrote:

> 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.oconnor@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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>