Google Announces Answer Converse: Anticipate Features Ready in the Near Future
June 13, 2013
The article titled Google Overhauling Flagship Search With “Answer, Converse, Anticipate” on Ars Technica discusses the new features Google announced at its Keynote on March 15, 2013. Answer, Converse, Anticipate are the three sections that encapsulate the new strategy. Answer involves Google’s Knowledge Graph, which has been made to understand “real-world entities” instead of just doing a keyword search. Converse uses Google Now to enable conversational searches with Chrome. Anticipation is an expanded version of Google Now, which the article explains was demoed by Joanna Wright, Google VP.
“Using a development build of Chrome, she called up the new search function with a simple “OK, Google”…and asked about interesting things to do in Santa Cruz. She then asked for details about the Santa Cruz boardwalk, which was listed in the results. After a key question (“OK, Google, how far is it from here?”), Google pinpointed her current location at Moscone and told her the boardwalk was 1 hour and 21 minutes away.”
The ability to understand context would mean this technology outsmarts even Siri. Of course it is not yet ready for release, but Google promised it would be available in the near future. The article does not mention good old boolean, date sorting, and relevance with a nod to precision and recall.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 13, 2013
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