Google launches Knowledge Graph for Russian-speaking users

Today, Google’s Russian-language blog has the news that, by the recent innovation of the Knowledge Graph, there are added support for several more languages, namely Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. A company representative said that within a few weeks the functionality will be available to everyone and the issue will change.
The graph helps when searching for information requests such as events, people, animals, the outside world, science, etc. The search will prompt the user to refine the query, which will change the information as a result of the search. This is another step towards the “smart search” that Google is trying to implement using this service.
Since people from almost all over the world come to the search engine, the number of concepts that the graph of knowledge contains and recognizes has been increased to 570 million, and the number of various facts and connections has exceeded 18 billion.
The project has already been discussed earlier and I will not describe it in detail. I will give just a few examples of search results using the knowledge graph:

- when prompted, for example “Peter I” in the right part you will see important information about this historical person. Important dates, a brief biography (with reference to wikipedia), information about relatives, as well as links to other events and events in history.


- at the request of "Venice" in the right corner will display information about the area in which the city is located, a brief historical background, local time, climate, as well as attractions that we are invited to visit. As stated above when going to a point of interest, its expanded page will open for it if information about it is available in the database.

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The functionality is now available to a small number of users, but as stated above, it will soon be available to all Russian-speaking users.

A more complete description of the Knowledge Graph can be found on its official page .