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Google Squared was an information extraction and
Google Squared was an information extraction and relationship extraction A relationship extraction task requires the detection and classification of semantic relationship mentions within a set of artifacts, typically from text or XML documents. The task is very similar to that of information extraction (IE), but IE ad ...
product from Google
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. It was announced on May 12, 2009 in response to the launch of Wolfram Alpha
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History
Launch preparations for WolframAlpha began on Ma ...
and was launched on Google Labs
Google Labs is an incubator created by Google to test and publicly demonstrate new projects.
The original version was online from early 2002 to mid-2011. Google described Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around w ...
on June 3, 2009. As part of the phasing out of Google Labs, Google Squared was shut down on September 5, 2011.
Squared was developed at Google's New York office. It was the first significant effort by Google to understand information on the web and present it in new ways.
Google Squared extracted structured data
A data model is an abstract model that organizes elements of data and standardizes how they relate to one another and to the properties of real-world entities. For instance, a data model may specify that the data element representing a car be ...
from across the web and presented its results in spreadsheet-like format. Each search query returned a table of search results which has its own set of columns - common attributes that are associated with the topic of a search. Nathania Johnson of Search Engine Watch
Search Engine Watch (SEW) provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing.
Search Engine Watch was started by Danny Sullivan in 1996. In 1997, Sullivan sold it for an undisclosed amount to Mecklermedia (now WebM ...
described Squared as "quite possibly ... one of Google's significant achievements".
See also
*List of Google products
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References
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