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William Tunstall Pedoe of True Knowledge Talks Semantic Search
True Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service – the True Knowledge Answer Engine – is a major step toward fulfilling a longstanding Internet industry goal: providing consumers with instant answers to complex questions, with a single click.
Picking up where search engines leave off, True Knowledge’s Answer Engine automates the laborious, time-consuming work that users generally must do to get final answers to their questions.
True Knowledge does this by structuring data in a way that enables computers to work and think like humans do, drawing inferences and conclusions when needed to find the information that’s requested.
Another key differentiator: True Knowledge is tapping subject matter experts around the globe to build its information repository – bringing together the benefits of machine-driven automation and people-driven intelligence.
In the below video, I’m chatting with the founder William Tunstall Pedoe in Cambridge England.
Natural Language Oracle – True Knowledge: New Search Technology from Cambridge #TG2009
Last week in Cambridge, the Traveling Geeks met William Tunstall-Pedoe of True Knowledge.
True Knowledge bills itself as a question answering service — a more refined online search service.
Instead of searching for words, you ask questions in natural language, and instead of getting a list of internet pages that may contain what you’re looking for, you get a concise direct answer. According to William, this is similar to Ask.com, but instead of human intervention, they’ve come up with new algorithms and data feeds that can automate the question-search.
True Knowledge has a huge database of facts (170 million and counting). For searchers, this translates into a powerful online personal assistant answering simple questions like When was Barak Obama born? and much more complicated ones like Who has been president of the US since John McCain was born? and How far is London from Michael Jackson’s birthplace? that require True Knowledge to deduce information based on the facts it knows.
True Knowledge has a free Firefox extension called Google Enhancer. After you install it, every time you search for something on the top search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask.com), the extension will also ask True Knowledge what you searched for and show you the results:
Here are photos of the TweetUp and the luxurious interiors of the Fitz.
Here is a photo of William and I at the Cambridge TweetUp at the Fitz Museum.
You can keep in touch with True Knowledge via their blog and @trueknowledge on Twitter.
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