Using a knowledge graph

Now, let's get back to our search engine. A user is searching for an eminent computer scientist— say, Donald Knuth. They type the name in the search field and get results from all over the web that are sorted to provide the best results. Let's, once again, take a look at Google Search. To make the most of the user interface, Google shows us some brief information about the search topic. In this case, it shows several pictures of the great scientist and some information about him to the right side of the web page with the results. Here's what that section looks like:

This way, the search engine tries to cover the user's ...

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