Tuesday 14 April 2015

Yahoo Has Their Own Knowledge Graph, Not Without Their Own Embarrassing Issues

Yahoo has their own knowledge graph box at the top of the search results, but some of the results make you wonder if they need to rethink their algorithms.

A year ago, we covered how Yahoo started testing a knowledge graph box in their search results. Well, now, for many knowledge graph oriented searches, Yahoo is indeed displaying the knowledge graph box.
The Knowledge Graph is a system that Google launched in May 2012 that understands facts about people, places and things and how these entities are all connected. Bing has their own version and now, so does Yahoo.
It is interesting to me that Yahoo, which is currently powered by Bing, does not utilize Bing’s knowledge graph data for their own. For example a search for [apple] on both Yahoo and Bing show different imagery, different snippets of information blocks but yes, both pull the description or bio from Wikipedia.

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