If over the past year or so you have seen Google throwing up results like cricket scores and disease symptoms, that is because the search giant is clearly on a path to provide answers to people’s queries. “When you are on a cellphone, people actually want an answer to your query, not just blue links,” says Ben Gomes Google’s VP for Engineering and Search, explaining how the depth of universal search and the context from Knowledge Graphs were helping Mountain View do this. Working on improving search, Google realised that a proper answer would have to be aided by concepts from the real world. “So we created Knowledge Graphs which contain a billion people, places and things and about 70 billion connections between them. For instance, if you ask who is the prime minister of India, we know there is a current prime minister, what his name is, we know how he is connected to other people and can thus answer your question in a natural way,” Gomes explains to indianexpr...