"It can discover and learn millions of relations, not just one at a time. With TextRunner, there is no human in the loop: it just finds relations on its own."
enter, for example, "kills bacteria,"
insights that "chlorine kills bacteria" or "ultraviolet light kills bacteria" or "heat kills bacteria"
then visit the Web page
ways to preview the text
triples
prototype
the ability of software to achieve rudimentary understanding of text
unprecedented scale and scope
analogous to technology developed by Powerset
a tool that was limited
TextRunner technology handles
arbitrary text on any page, including blog posts, product catalogues, newspaper articles, and more
"this work reflects a growing trend toward the design of search tools that actively combine the pieces of information they find on the Web into a larger synthesis."