The intersection of time and space - Yahoo! and google

    Here it is! It is done! In continuation of the topic of books on the map , I develop the idea:
    I timidly suggested that it would be nice to be able to grab the time of events, and not just a place from the text, but did not really imagine how to do this technically. And the engineers from Google seem to have imagined this very clearly and clearly.
    1. In the updated Google search, you can view the results in the form of Timeline - a timeline on which the query results are strung. So, time-parsing.
    2. And the news number two, which I already mentioned - Yahoo! Placemaker . This tool can grab geo objects from text. Here is an example: " News on the map ." And geoparsing.
    Geoparsing + Timeparsing = everything, words are over. This is a breakthrough! Thoughts about possible ways to combine these two technologies do not fit in my head. This is a new approach to data structuring and their visual and convenient presentation.

    Example of use : I found Columbus, for example; I see that the most references to it date back to October 1492 : At this time, Columbus landed in the northeast of the island of Cuba : Here is a description of the event: I want to read something else on this topic. Imagine that such a comprehensive search gives me the opportunity to find all the information that relates to this place and time with one click. For example: Well, any pampering in the spirit to see photos and videos about this place:














    Such is the idea for a mashup, offhand.

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