Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:11 PM/EST
Now what, Steve? Google just introduced a pair of significant changes to its search product, something Steve Ballmer recently said it couldn't do because it's got too darn much market share. As I suggested in my earlier post on Ballmer's...
Friday, January 23, 2009 10:25 AM/EST
Schmidt is alluding to smarter search -- semantic search, which uses XML and RDF data from semantic networks to disambiguate search queries and Web text to improve search results. This year, Google search will start making greater connections for us online than ever before. I wonder what happens when semantic search meets our social graph?
Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:01 AM/EST
Google has joined the semantic search party, though when exactly this happened is officially a mystery, unearthed in part by ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick, who blogged about the possibility that Google has been sneaking disambiguated search under our noses. Google claims it updated its Q&A feature "with more information from the Web," which is close as Google will come to saying it's doing semantic search.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:03 AM/EST
Interesting disclosure regarding Google's use of semantics for how it determines search results. .
Monday, January 14, 2008 10:39 AM/EST
Nicholas Carr, the man who slapped the IT world upside the head by saying IT doesn't matter, is talking to folks about his new book "The Big Switch." Carr told Forbes in a Q&A that Google is working on how to mind-meld your brain with your computer. Yikes...
Monday, November 26, 2007 11:43 AM/EST
What Tim Berners-Lee is talking about goes beyond OpenSocial to make everyone in a social network accessible (not unlike a document) to everyone else in every other network...