If you’ve ever Googled something only to be met with a little info box highlighting the top answer, you’ve encountered one of Google’s “featured snippets.” Featured snippets are the litt
Logseq founder Tienson Qin takes a lot of notes about his work. He also likes to draw together with his six-year-old daughter on an iPad, and he found that the notes tool he had been using for years d
RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B
Amazon’s Alexa AI team has developed a new training method for the virtual assistant that could greatly improve its ability to handle tricky questions. In a blog post, team lead Abdalghani Abuja
Amazon confirmed it’s rolling out a new feature called “Answer Update” to Alexa device users over the next week, which will notify users when Alexa learns the answer to a question th
Google's latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to hel
Google’s search chief Amit Singhal said for the first time this summer, more Google searches were completed on mobile devices than desktop computers. Singhal said Google fields more than 100 bil
Wondering how to make a Moscow Mule or a Margarita? Google this morning is rolling out a new search feature that will tell you how to make any cocktail, offering step-by-step instructions, a list of
Google's semantic-search base, which it uses to supplement organic search results with summarized information typically foregrounded above the organic results, is getting an injection of medical facts
Google is now displaying music lyrics at the top of its search results pages when you search for “song name” plus “lyrics” on Google – a move that may reduce the number
Amit Singhal, Google’s senior VP of search, today announced that Google’s Knowledge Graph will start exposing a number of statistics as graphs on the search results pages today. Google is
Some people believe that Google’s practices when it comes to search are mystical and unfair — or sometimes evil — but what the company wants to do is surface the most important inf
We've all been there: you'll be watching a movie when someone familiar enters the frame, and you just can't place a name to the face. Well, if you're watching said movie on an Android tablet, those da
Google Fellow Ben Gomes took the stage at LeWeb Paris and announced that Google's Knowledge Graph project is now available in a number of new languages, including Italian and Russian (we're still conf
Google's Knowledge Graph is quickly becoming one of the key features of the company's search engine and today, the company added yet another area of information to the project. Starting now, users who
Google just <a target="_blank" href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/people-also-search-for-now-with_9451.html">announced</a> a small but interesting update to its Knowledge Graph panels. Ins
When I sat down with Jack Menzel from Google last week, we discussed all of the cool possibilities that are to come for search. One of the most interesting projects the team is working on is Knowledge
Google's Knowledge Graph has become a useful tool when you're searching for things that interest you. There are a few reasons why it's a handy feature, but most of all it provides context to what you'
Microsoft today <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2012/06/07/bing-introduces-new-britannica-online-encyclopedia-answers.aspx">announced</a> that it has