WolframAlpha: How a Computational Engine Progresses the Semantic Web

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 [...]

Google Continues to Walk Towards the Semantic Light

Google : “Structured data makes the web a better place. It also helps Google better understand and present your page in search results”.  And so begins Google’s introduction to its new meta data format branded “Rich Snippets”.  That’s Semantic mark up or the Semantic Web’s passage from childhood into adolescence after it’s 10 year gestation [...]