As the highest valued brand in the world, Google cannot afford to lag behind in the innovations that are developing right in the middle of their industry front yard. The expansion of Semantic web development from academic niche to application developments to wide adoption has not gone unnoticed by the alumni at Mountview, California (headquarters [...]
Stephen Wolfram’s WolframAlpha was launched on May 15th in a well coordinated wave of news coverage
that promoted the computational engine as a useful alternative if not precisely rival to Google. It is a as self-described, an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers fact-based queries directly by calculating the answer [...]
One basic misassumption is that there’s one single formula, one technique that equates to the “killer application” and beats all other approaches hands down.
“The general dream of the semantic web is to have all human knowledge in a machine-readable fashion. Why? Because machines do a better job with stupid things so we can use more of our time for intelligent things.
Dr. Studer is a full professor of Applied Informatics (sic) at the University of Karlsruhe, in Germany, director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute and has been a past president of the Semantic Web Science Association. His areas of research include ontology management, semantic web services, and knowledge management. He’s also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Web Semantics.
The [...]
MacManus has done us the service of a round up of 10 new Semantic derived or inspired products of the year. Of these, we’ve written about Adaptive Blue, Yahoo’s Search Monkey and Open Calais on this blog before and of the pack Open Calais is more specifically based on reading semantic based meta formats. However, [...]
Marrisa Mayer is Google’s VP of Google’s search products. In an interview with Bambi Fransisco of Vatornews, Mayer does her best to down play the importance of natural search optimisation tactics as well as the emergence of the new Semantic oriented search engines. Ofcourse she would, as VP for Google products, her job is [...]
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