[WikiEN-l] Google faking semantics

[Mathias Schindler]

On 1/3/07, cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
> It looks like google is pulling some information from wikipedia in a
> pseudo semantic way,
>
> http://www.google.com/search?c2coff=1&q=hd+dvd+capacity&btnG=Search
>
> from
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD
>
> Am I just noticing this, or is it new?

Well, the feature itself is not new. It seems, however, that google is
now automatically parsing info-box information, in this case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_media

This way, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-27,GGGL:en&q=Betamax+encoding
is working too, since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax contains

Betamax Media type: 	Video recording media
Encoding: 	Magnetic tape
Developed by: 	Sony
Usage: 	Video storage

Try googling:
Betamax Usage
GD-ROM media type
VHS encoding

and so on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_media)

So in order to find more of these shortcuts, one should check the
infoboxen on en.wp

Mathias