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Exactly how do you think Google (and Bing, and ...) work? They do start from known indexes, in particular wikipedia. Hell, Google even has internal papers where
by candiodari 4y ago
Exactly how do you think Google (and Bing, and ...) work? They do start from known indexes, in particular wikipedia. Hell, Google even has internal papers where they claim they improved search quality by "wikipedia's" as a unit.
- PaulHoule 4y agoActually Microsoft bought a company called Powerset which did information from Wikipedia to build a "semantic as in semantic web" index, that technology became the heart of Bing. Google was caught flat footed and wound up buying and killing Freebase in order to catch up. They lied and said they rejected "semantic web" approaches despite hiring one of the leaders of the Cyc project as their head of research. Still there is a difference between exposing that kind of database through a full text index vs exposing it through a browsing interface.