Viewing Entities on Pages…

I’m always on the lookout for useful Chrome extensions that help me quickly understand page contents and to highlight important elements. If you’re a fan of entities for #SEO, then I think you’ll really dig this new Chrome extension:

Wikid - Wikify the internet

? Chrome Extension?? | Firefox Add-On??

So, next time you’re checking out some content, activate Wikid to scrape & analyze the named entities on the page. Just mash the Wikid icon on your toolbar and wait while the back-end service parses the page and modifies the HTML DOM.

It can be very informative to see when a given page makes it easy for machines to identify entities and topics, and when the writing obscures the entities. For example, compare the top-ranked page for rugged mountain bikes to a page ranking at the top of Page 2:

Also, after you've run the Wikid analysis/extraction, check out the Dev Tools Console for extra information.?

Upon installation, if you run an extraction but don’t see any entities highlighted, you may want to use your own userstyle to be sure to override the page’s CSS.

I use the Stylus extension, and supplied my own CSS. I’m sure future updates will resolve this.

? Stylus: Chrome extension?? | Firefox Add-On??

You may notice that Wikid doesn’t seem to catch all the possible entities or entity synonyms on a page. I’m not sure why that is, but I’m hoping it will be addressed over time.

Final tip: You can run the entity extraction by clicking the Wikid icon in the browser toolbar, or assign it a keyboard shortcut, which I did. Your mileage may vary, but I like using CTRL-SHIFT-W for this extension.

PS: The extension comes from Andrew Nelson , the linguist behind the GetReadefine?? glossary/readability service.

Wikid builds on the Readefine concept by parsing key terms/entities on the web, linking them to Wikipedia like a glossary.

? Blog: Introducing Readefine??

? Chrome Extension?? | Firefox Add-On??

Final notes: The Wikid extension relies on the entity-fishing library, which you can find here:

? Github: Entity Fishing??

And I believe the Chrome extension is hitting this demo/back-end instance of entity fishing, which you can also play with here:

https://cloud.science-miner.com/nerd/

Happy entity-hunting!

Rich