Google launches new Search engine for finding datasets

Google has launched a new type of search engine designed specifically around helping people find data. Simply called "Dataset Search," the tool provides easier access to millions of datasets across thousands of data repositories on the web. Anyone can use Dataset Search, which is still in beta, but Google emphasizes the benefits it has for journalists and data scientists. Dataset Search surfaces results from publishers' sites, digital libraries, and authors' personal web pages.

Google's new search engine is largely dependent on the schema markup for dataset providers that was rolled out in July. Dataset markup allows publishers to describe their data in a way that Google (and other search engines) can better understand the content of their pages.

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