Re: Google Knowledge Graph Experiment

It finally works for me.

First thing I tried was "Paris Hilton" and "Hilton Paris", which is always
the simple of example of lack of semantics on the web that I tell people
like my mom.

Actually, I'm disappointed with what I got.
https://twitter.com/#!/juansequeda/status/203548313318985729


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:45 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> ...or feed an interesting conspiracy theory :)
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> Regards,
> Dave
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> On May 18, 2012, at 13:41, Eric Franzon wrote:
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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. ;)
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> Cheers,
> --Eric
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> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Eric Franzon <eric@semanticweb.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Cheers,
>> --Eric
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>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> On May 18, 2012, at 17:57 , Aidan Hogan wrote:
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>>> > 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
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>>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
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>>> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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