Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine

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Post by DyslexicAtheist » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 12:38 PM UTC

Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine
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Re: Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine

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Post by melling » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

Danny Hillis worked on the original Google knowledge graph?

https://underlay.mit.edu

Re: Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #2

Danny Hillis worked on the original Google knowledge graph? https://underlay.mit.edu

More specifically, he made FreeBase, which Google bought and then extended into the Knowledge Graph, before eventually shutting off the original, open/"free" database.

That being said, as the developer of the system that Google is built upon these days, if he's got a version 2, people really should be interested in that, as obviously his version 1 worked pretty well. And if anyone wants to strip the competitive advantage away from Google, supporting Underlay and it's place in the public domain would be extremely powerful.

Re: Google 2.0: Why MIT scientists are building a new search engine

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Post by mongmong » Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

This was eye opening. Great to see these kinds of foundational or plumbing work being down to tackle the explosion of information and fisinformation out there. If anyone else has more knowledge to share about this that'd be awesome.