E-commerce major Flipkart to do a Google with knowledge graph

Knowledge graph refers to underlying base technologies, which was made popular by Google to enhance results it shows users from a variety of sources

Homegrown e-commerce giant Flipkart has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the country’s premier research institute, to build a Google-like ‘knowledge graph’. This will help the company to more efficiently catalogue its 380 million and growing listings, aiding customers to find the right products which will boost its business.

Headed by Partha Talukdar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) at IISc, the project is one of Flipkart’s grand vision plans for which it is partnering with academia. The company has several such other ongoing collaborations with premier Indian institutes as well as foreign universities