On 1/3/07, cohesion cohesion@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... 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