Google Knowledge Graph -> fucking hypocrites

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, considering what Google has said in the past. At least in my opinion, search will evolve from showing results to answering questions, and that was the point of the Knowledge Graph from the start.

When you think about the goal of search engines, it is to directly provide the user with what they are looking for as quickly and painlessly as possible. In situations where they are looking for information, Google would of course want to directly display that information to the searcher instead of making them click through different results trying to find what they are looking for. If it wasn't for the fact that this is a fairly hard thing to accurately do, Google would have been doing this years ago.

It might be unfortunate for websites, but as Eric Schmidt said, Google exists for users and not for website owners.
 


not all content are scraped.

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When you think about the goal of search engines, it is to directly provide the user with what they are looking for as quickly and painlessly as possible. In situations where they are looking for information, Google would of course want to directly display that information to the searcher instead of making them click through different results trying to find what they are looking for. If it wasn't for the fact that this is a fairly hard thing to accurately do, Google would have been doing this years ago.

It might be unfortunate for websites, but as Eric Schmidt said, Google exists for users and not for website owners.

QFT.

The metric Google is optimizing is Query per Session. A sign of a good search engine is that users are getting the answers they want with less re-typing.

You can bitch all you want but all of us on the Skype group have already been talking about how to optimize for the Knowledge Graph. Think of it as leapfrogging the top 10. :action-smiley-052:
 
As a blog owner, wouldn't you be thrilled to see Google featuring your content (and a link below) at the #1 spot for that search, above any other links or really above where the list of links even begins?

What % of searchers will just read your answer without ever considering clicking a competitor? Quite a few I'm guessing.

Yes, I realize some people won't click through, and it deprives your website of a visit. But I'd still be thrilled about having my content up there and dominating that search.

Maybe that just shows that I'm a relative small timer in IM though.

QFT.


You can bitch all you want but all of us on the Skype group have already been talking about how to optimize for the Knowledge Graph. Think of it as leapfrogging the top 10. :action-smiley-052:

Is the skype group invite only?
 
I'm no freeman on the land laywer, but I think Google is threading a thin line here with regards to copyright infringement.

Scraping is already a grey zone, where in some cases it has been ruled illegal. To systematically scrape and show other people's content without their consent and without a good faith quotation link is once again, something that seems to be very close to a lawsuit waiting to happen.