Re: [ontolog-forum] FW: Google Knowledge Graph

[Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:37 AM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/16/2012 4:01 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
> Google Knowledge Graph
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html

Thanks for the pointer.  Unfortunately, I don't want Google's
"things not strings".  I know how to find what I want by typing in
the correct strings.  I definitely do *not* want their so-called
"things" messing up my search.

I was an "early adopter" of Google, when they first got started.
And I loved their page-rank algorithm.  But their attempts to
second-guess what I want have been miserable failures.

I just googled "Himmelfahrt" — today, in Germany, on Ascension Day 2012 — to read up on why the Ascension warrants a national holiday and the "knowledge" graph returned lots of information related to a 12 year old album by a German industrial metal band. Not a thing about the holiday, the event it purports to celebrate, its religious significance, etc.

-chris

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