Google is Building an Ontology
Since the spring of 2012, Google has started to move from search of particular combinations of letters to searching things. This move from string-based search to searching things is a move towards Google building an ontology of things. The difference with searching things instead of strings is that Google can differentiate between homonyms, things that sound the same but are different. For example, if you think about Google itself, it is both a search engine and a company. And these are two different things, with different attributes. ...