{"id":156,"date":"2009-10-02T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-06-02T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:18:38","slug":"google-wonder-wheel-and-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/156-google-wonder-wheel-and-semantics.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Wonder wheel and semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google search options<\/p><\/div>
\nGoogle is really pushing the pedal this fall. They have a lot of new features and products lined up and recently a few new nice features showed up on google.com. Their market leading search engine has gotten a list of new filter options on a search. After you search you now get a Show Options button straight below the search field. When you click upon that button, you may now filter your search result, showing only the latest entries and so on.<\/p>\n

One of the features available is what Google calls a Wonder Wheel. This a wheel that shows semantically interesting searches near the one you just performed. This is a very interesting feature, but sometimes this can give you unexpected results. As you can see in the search results below, Odd is a Scandinavian name. He is not necessarily odd, strange or weird. We have just experienced a nice example of semantics that have gone a bit awry. I guess Google might identify situations like this soon, but until then we may laugh a bit at this little screen dump.<\/p>\n

What is really interesting though is how this might be handled. Consider a world where the source data Google is analyzing is telling Google that this is a name, and thus cannot be a synonym to other words. Where there is no doubt whether this is the first name or last name. You might have heard the name before. It’s called a semantic web.
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I wonder what the wheel is trying to tell me.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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