Microsoft has
tied up with Encyclopaedia Britannica to make its
Bing
search result more relevant and knowledge-heavy. With this move, the
search engine will feature summaries of topics from the Encyclopaedia
for some of its search results. Bing users can now see a small box in
the search results that sums up facts about the said topic. It also
provides links to other reference sources such as
Wikipedia,
Qwiki, and
Freebase.
However,
reports further suggest
that this feature doesn’t pop up for every search term. The Britannica
summary box appears like a regular search result, and isn't highlighted
like a featured result. In fact, it doesn’t even appear as a top result.
Considering that Britannica has stopped its print edition earlier this year, this move will surely boost its popularity. Having said that, since it seems like Microsoft is trying to compete with
Google's
knowledge graph service; it definitely has a long way to go before tasting success.
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