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The intersection of time and space - Yahoo! and google

Here it is! It is done! Continuing the theme of books on the map , I develop a thought:
I timidly suggested that it would be good to be able to grab the time of events, not just a place from the text, but I didn’t really know how to do this technically. And engineers from Google seem to have imagined it very clearly.
  1. In the updated Google search, you can view the results in the form of a Timeline - a timeline on which the query results are strung. So, taymparsing.
  2. And news number two, which I have already mentioned - Yahoo! Placemaker . This tool can snatch geo objects from the text. Here is an example: " News on the map ." And geoparcing.
Geoparsing + Taymparsing = all words are over. This is a breakthrough! Thoughts about the possible ways of combining these two technologies do not fit in my head. This is a new approach to data structuring and visual and convenient presentation.

Example, use : I found Columbus, for example; I look, that most of all mentions of it concern October, 1492 :


At this time, Columbus landed in the northeast of the island of Cuba :
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Here is a description of the event:


I want to read something else on this topic. Imagine that such a comprehensive search gives me the opportunity to find all the information that relates to this place and time with one click. For example:


Well, all the pampering in the spirit to see photos and videos about this place:


Such is the idea for the mashup, offhand.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/61545/


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