SES San Jose: Semantic Search: How will it change our lives?
Where is search headed? We’ve heard of semantic search for a few years now, but what’s going on with it? Each major search engine is taking the next steps but some are closer than others.
Actually, what we are beginning to see is semantic and universal search merging together. Yahoo, Ask, Powerset and Hakia showed screenshots that included images, videos, ratings and other media. Are universal and semantic search the same? Possibly.
- Sorry for the bad pictures. I haven’t got down the art of taking pictures of PowerPoint slides.
Yahoo may actually be leading semantic search, as compared to Google, MSN and Ask, as they are empowering users to incorporate data via microformats, rdf and SearchMonkey applications. You can go into Yahoo today and additional sites such as Facebook and LinkdIn are already integrated into people searches. Other applications can be added based on the users preference. Yahoo […]
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