Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

Ivan,

Actually, some modest testing has shown something other than geography at play here. Earlier today, colleagues in London and California were able to see GKG rich data visualizations, while others in the US (myself included -- also in California) and Europe could not.

I spoke to a Google representative this afternoon who confirmed the gradual roll-out, but would not (or could not) discuss the algorithm. He did hint that people with Google accounts will be first to see the enhancements.

Cheers,
--Eric

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On May 17, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> Kingsley,
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> the problem is that, as usual, the GKG is a US centric thing for now, At least here in the Netherlands it does not seem to work yet.
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> (I guess I could set up a proxy to my account in MIT, and reconfigure my browsers to work that way, but that is too much trouble...)
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> :-(
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> Ivan
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> (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...)
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> On 17 May 2012, at 22:38, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>> All,
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>> I have a theory (at this point) that Google has used profile analytics (not a bad thing per se.) to drive the rollout of their new Knowledge Graph service. I've dropped a post on G+ with links to a Google Drive folder with screenshots that feed my current theory about profile driven rollout. Basically, you have two users (distinct profiles) issuing the same query, with different results.
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>> I am interested in finding out how many of you actually see the new Knowledge Graph sidebar.
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>> Links:
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>> 1. http://goo.gl/dZgxf -- G+ post about my theory
>> 2. http://goo.gl/6eemj -- Shared Google Drive Folder .
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