Some Semantic Soul Searching on Search!
What is semantic search? Can it supplant Google? Can it give a second life to Yahoo? Does it bring better results yet? Will it later? How will it get there? If anyone, who will deliver superior search? Is search even a good application of semantic technologies? And, my personal favorite, why IN THE WORLD is everyone spending their hard-earned cash on incrementally improving a benefit that's already pretty well covered (and probably more than a little dogwatched over by Google*), when there are so many cool applications of semantic technologies awaiting us out there? And among them, I believe, the killer app...
Many questions the Gang grasped with in the August edition of our podcast, together with special guests Peter Mika of SearchMonkey and Giovanni Tummarello of Semantic Web Index Sindice. Available for your listening pleasure (or torture, if you're like my life partner and about to start that anti-semantic web group...) here.
And as I did in the recording, let me refer you to Alex Iskold's article in Nodalities as a great complement to our conversations. It's promised, in my next post I won't make any reference to Alex, who by now must be asking himself why all the attention...
* by the way, what happened to that Twine post and discussion on Google's activity in semantic search? It seems to have been removed???
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