Sunday, August 3, 2014

Musical artist events rich list

Exactly 4 weeks have passed since I came back from Brazil!
It was one of the best trip EVER. The world cup was amazing and the atmosphere was so magnificent! Many football (or should I say soccer...) fans from all over the world gathered together in the land of football (Yes, Although the 7-1, Brazil was and it's still the land of football :))

6 games, 15 goals, many games in Copacabana's fan fest, beers and caipirinhas with Brazilians, Hollandians, Germans, Argentinians, and as a matter of fact, with who not :)
It was a CRAZY FESTIVAL!
Holland(5) - Spain(1), what an amazing game to start with! Salvador, June 2014
Belgium(1) - Russia(0). Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, June 2014 

And back to work...

It's time to update you about my contribution to Google Search. Besides developing the Google APIs client library for .NET, I have been working in the last months on several search features. One of the things that I'm really proud of, is the artist events rich list.
Just "Google" [lada gaga events][christina perri tour][piano guys concerts] and a cool rich list with all upcoming events is going to be displayed, as following:



As you can see, first we display the nearby events; Google already knows that I'm living in NYC, so events that are located close to me are being displayed first, and then all the others, sorted by date.

Take a look in getting your events to the knowledge graph video by my Google fellow, Justin Boyan.



And what about the Google APIs client library for .NET you are asking?
I'm working on targeting Windows 8.1 as well as all the other platforms we already support. Version 1.9.0 is coming soon...

Eyal