Web 3.0 and Semantic Search by Abhishek Gattani, AltSearchEngines (Jan 310
Guest writer, Abhishek Gattani, of Kosmix gives his take on the semantic web. Kosmix has been utilizing some of the semantic analysis and technology to present search results, and notes that Google, Yahoo and Bing have recently been adopting aspects.
He wrote - "Semantic web is about annotating facets and attributes associated with web content and linking data. In other words, semantic web is about teaching machines to read web pages, which are designed to be read by humans. So how can semantics improve search?"
One manifestation of semantic understanding, is he new ability of search engines to present the structure of a web page. "For instance, for events we [Kosmix] list the date, time, event snippet, and even ticket prices, which really let you decide if you should be clicking to book a ticket or it is not aligning with your schedule and budget."
Semantic technologies come into play into ranking results too - in the occurence of related words.
Posted by Gwen at February 4, 2010 03:24 PM