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Knowledge Graph: Google Officially Announces Its “Things” Results

Knowledge Graph: Google Officially Announces Its “Things” Results

Google says this makes it smarter

By Chris Crum

Google has formally announced the "Knowledge Graph," its way of providing results about "things". We've reported on the products of this a couple of times, as Google has been testing them. An example would be when you search for a band, and Google puts some boxes on the side ...

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