Organizing the Web around Concepts by Mitul Tiwari, Kosmix Blog (Sept 30)
Identifies the next wave of web search as being one which reorganizes the "Internet by topic or concept". Examples of the concept orientation are "Freebase, Google Squared, DBLife, and Kosmix topic pages".
Kosmix sees web pages being comprised of three types: search pages, topic/concept pages, and articles. Searchers benefit from seeing concepts related to those in their query.
People / editors organize pages by concept - this is the essence of a directory. But today topical approach is done algorithmically through:
+ concept extraction
+ relationship mining
+ linking data with concepts
Concluded - "In short, organizing the web around concepts is a promising area and a stepping stone to bring meaning behind the web data."
Posted by Gwen at October 2, 2009 08:16 PM