- From: Eric Franzon <eric@semanticweb.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:41:34 -0700
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Aidan Hogan <aidan.hogan@deri.org>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "public-rww@w3.org" <public-rww@w3.org>
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Although, really, if TimBL doesn't yet see anything as he just reported, that may shoot the "influence" hypothesis right out of the water. ;) Cheers, --Eric On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Eric Franzon <eric@semanticweb.com> wrote: > I also am still not getting to view GKG enrichments either. It truly seems > to be a gradual roll-out (as Google confirmed to us yesterday: > http://semanticweb.com/google-knowledge-graph-interview_b29172). I have > tried all three of my Google accounts, all of which have completed > profiles, but to no avail. > > What the representative we interviewed indicated is that they are rolling > out slowly to account holders "over the next few days." THEN, they will > begin with general Google.com visitors. And then I suspect they will (again > gradually) start rolling it out across other global Googles. > > I was interested in Kingsley's experiment because it was based on the > theory that some measure of "social influence" might be at play in the > algorithm. While my ego might certainly wish to believe that I (and > semanticweb.com) have such influence, I acknowledge that Danny Sullivan, > Kara Swisher, et al probably have more in the broader tech world. ;-) > > Of course, if Google would mention "Semantic Web" in their marketing > material or acknowledge any of the other work that has come before, that > would no doubt help with the "influence" of all of us on these lists. But I > digress... for more on *that* perspective, you may wish to see Sean > Golliher's editorial which will be published at SemanticWeb.com at the top > of the next hour (2:00pm ET in the US). > > Cheers, > --Eric > > > > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > >> Well... I tried this trick, but does not change a thing. Yes, the search >> happens on www.google.com, but I presume it knows that I am, hm, >> considered as Dutch and sticks to its guns: I see nothing of the GKG on my >> screen. >> >> Ivan >> >> On May 18, 2012, at 17:57 , Aidan Hogan wrote: >> >> > All, >> > >> > On 18/05/2012 05:51, Eric Franzon wrote: >> >> 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. >> > >> > In my experience, the most reliable way to see GKG in action is: >> > >> > Visit http://google.com/ncr >> > (the "/ncr" suffix stops you redirecting to a local version) >> > >> > Be logged in with a Google account. >> > >> > Try a typical entity search (e.g., "Galway"). >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Aidan >> >> >> ---- >> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead >> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >> mobile: +31-641044153 >> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > *Eric Axel Franzon* > Vice President of Community > SemanticWeb.com > 6080 Center Dr., 6th Floor > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > > eric@semanticweb.com > O: +1.323.856.1474 > C: +1.323.309.1601 > > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/ericfranzon > Twitter: http://twitter.com/SemanticWeb > > -- *Eric Axel Franzon* Vice President of Community SemanticWeb.com 6080 Center Dr., 6th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90045 eric@semanticweb.com O: +1.323.856.1474 C: +1.323.309.1601 LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/ericfranzon Twitter: http://twitter.com/SemanticWeb
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