I’m sure a lot of you have heard or read about the Semantic Web… or what is referred to occasionally as Web3.0. The underlying principle is that it will be a Web that not only relies on keywords or tagged content but on the actual semantics (meaning and context) of various words.
There have been some [...]
Tag Archive > semantic web
Solution for the Semantic Web? RDFa and MicroFormats…
A deeper mining of the web…
This NY Times article about some of the new technologies being designed to search the Deep Web is quite a good one. It outlines some of the problems the standard Search Engines have in their attempts to penetrate and index a lot of the data that lies below the surface… and also refers to some [...]
Semantic Search on Google…
I know it’s already February and it’s time we stopped touting 2009 as the year of x or y…etc. but based on this post on Google Watch it seems Semantic Search is going to become more prevalent in 2009. It looks like Google is thinking about releasing some enhancements to it’s Search Engine that will [...]
Deep dive on DeepDyve…
I wrote about the launch of DeepDyve last week… in this post. I got my login over the weekend along with the below information from DeepDyve:
Today you can conduct searches in the following areas:
- Life Science and Medical: Includes over 600 full text journals, including
Annual Reviews, BioOne, Sage, and Mary Ann Liebert; databases including
Medline (containing [...]
Deepdyving into the web…
It’s quite well known that the standard Search Engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL… etc. only scratch the surface of all the online content. Even though recent attempts by several of them to include non-textual content, such as images or video there is still a huge amount of hard-to-reach content.
This is where the new breed [...]
Still waiting for the semantic web…
I came across this classic article on the Register today…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/georgia_google_maps_confusion/
This highlights, yet again, some of the problems with current Search Query technology and it’s ability to return contextually relevant results. While most of the hype around the semantic web and contextual search refers to general Search Engine results, it’s clear that the problem extends to [...]
