Remember Ask? You know, the search engine with the Butler. While the company doesn’t get brought up in the discussion as much as it once did, it has not surrendered to Google and it’s other competitors just yet. Ask has now announced some advances in its semantic search technology. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of Semantic Search, Wikipedia explains it:
Experts Discuss The Future Of Semantic Search
It’s not the key to flying cars, and perhaps we also can’t count on it to provide clean energy or miracle cures. The development of semantic search is of huge importance to search companies, advertisers, and the average user, however, so a session of the same name addressed the question of "Semantic Search: How Will it Change Our Lives?"
Yahoo Throws Its Weight Behind The Semantic Web
The semantic web was one of those ideas that are always a little out of reach; statements of "that’s so cool!" emerged from few places other than tech conferences. Yahoo has announced its support for semantic web standards, however, so it looks like the thing may finally arrive.
Trying Semantic Search Yourself
Most of you know that my job focuses on IBM’s OmniFind enterprise search and text analytics products. And I’ve written before about semantic search—I’ve even written about what semantic search isn’t. I keep talking about it because semantic search is probably the easiest to understand application of text analytics.
SiloMatic – Latent Semantic Indexing
The days of keyword stuffing, single phrase optimization and concentrating only on incoming links to gain traffic are slowly being phased out as a more holistic approach to judging website content comes online. This new concept has many webmasters hopping, and it should. Latent semantic indexing is quickly becoming the wave of now.
Avatar Seeks Semantic Search
Researchers at IBM Almaden have been developing a semantic search process that can delve into unstructured text to retrieve structured information.
What Semantic Search is Not
You may have heard the term "semantic search," but do you really know what it is? Some people have very big ideas of how computers will understand the meaning of text, but today’s semantic search falls far short of that. Regardless, what’s possible today is still very useful.
To understand how hard it is for computers to really understand the meaning of text, let’s not look at understanding entire documents or even paragraphs. Let’s not even look at sentences. No, let’s start with something extremely simple: noun phrases.
Xerox Takes A Stab At Semantic Search
Every day, we bring you news of the latest comings and goings in the search engine industry. The names Google and Yahoo come up a lot . . . Xerox, not so much. But it’s that last company that is preparing a semantics-based search engine.
Semantic Images & SEO
Very rarely do I come across software that makes me go “WOW”
Keep in mind that I read almost everything covering new social software.
Microsoft has a project team working on a piece of software called SeaDragon.
What is SeaDragon?
Arguing The Semantic Web: Dead Or Just Not Alive?
The language used to describe the Semantic Web is complicated enough – at a glance, it looks a bit quantum theory-ish, just enough to make your eyes roll back into your head to look for ways to kill themselves – but Tim Berners-Lee, who’s responsible for all those Ws littering your URLs, inspired enough faith that whatever the Semantic Web was, it could be accomplished.