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What is semantic search?

What is semantic search?Web 3.0 Semantic Search[b] Wow! [/b]I'd really like to hear more about Expert Systems conducts these searches. My company is overwhelmed with information and material. Sifting through these mountains of text and data for useful, actionable materials is a real challenge. I really think a system that...

Tags: semantic search, Semantic Search

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

What is semantic search?

Semantic search uses the science of meaning in language—instead of just searching keywords, it checks the context of the words to return more relevant results. Brooke Aker, CEO of Expert System USA, predicts that it will usher in the era of Web 3.0.

Tags: whiteboard, semantics, semantic search, web 2.0, web 3.0, productivity

Whiteboards 2008-10-22

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Tags: Apple Macintosh, Text Editor, Brother, Soulmen, Ulysses, Word Processors, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-15

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Tags: Apple Macintosh, Text Editor, Soulmen, Ulysses

Software downloads 2009-09-15

Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google

Strange guesses or hopes?[i]"Advertisers migrate to Microsoft today since it will have the ad platform going forward"[/i]Why? Google makes MS look like a microbe and advertisers want to be where the money is, i.e. where the [b]people[/b] is.What MS has is an effort to copy Google and make money on...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conferencethanks for thisI couldn't be there and really appreciate your careful report. I'm more interested in Semantic Search now that they aren't promising the moon.Avi Rappoport / SearchTools.com

Tags: Semantic Search Round Table, Semantic Technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Social Media, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...

Despite their motto 'Don't Be Evil', Google appear to be making a pretty good effort at attempting to own your online data and computing world, and all at a low, no up front cost to you. The latest Google product, an operating system, adds to the already formidable...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Internet, Web Browsers, Thin Clients, Hardware, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?

Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...

Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-28

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

New York Times embraces Linked Data

The keynote on this final day of the Semantic Technology Conference saw Robert Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times talk about the paper's innovative adoption of semantic technologies; "The first semantic search system for The New Times was released in 1913 and...

Tags: Paper, New York Times Co., Linked Data, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-18

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'

Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media” company. And...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

News to know: Apple vs. Palm; Windows 7; Adobe; Twitter and Iran

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync can work for now Jason O'Grady: A fix for Mail...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Mice, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?

Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?Semantic approach to social discoveryThanks for the interesting thoughts on the potential of a semantic approach to content-oriented social features. This is just the course we?re taking at Jinni, using insights from our semantic search-and-recommendation engine for movies / TV to...

Tags: TVs, Semantic & Social Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?

Here's an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Social Web, Tim Berners Lee, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-10