Knowledge cards#
When your web search (first page) is about a well-known subject, Seurch shows up to three knowledge cards beside the results, a quick summary so you often don’t need to click through at all.
The cards#
| Card | Source | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia | A summary, image and link for the subject. This is the anchor card, it also helps detect what the other cards should show. |
| Film / TV | TheTVDB | Details for a movie or TV show: poster, rating, year, overview. |
| Places | TripAdvisor | A restaurant, hotel or attraction: its area, rating and review count, a short description, and the address (which links to the map). |
| Q&A | Stack Exchange | The top question and answer for a technical query. |
How they’re chosen#
Seurch only shows a card when your query genuinely matches that kind of subject:
- Wikipedia (and Wikidata behind the scenes) work out what the subject is, a film, a person, a place, in a language-independent way.
- The richer cards (film, places, Q&A) are only fetched when the query actually looks like that kind of thing, and the best match wins, weak matches are dropped.
This keeps the panel relevant and avoids unnecessary lookups.
Lazy loading#
The cards load just after the main results, with a quick background fetch, so a slow card never holds up your answer. There is nothing to configure: when your browser runs JavaScript the cards arrive a moment after the results, and when it doesn’t they are rendered with the page instead.
You can switch any individual card source on or off under Settings → Engines, where they sit among the Web search type’s data sources, see Settings.