The Next NOT Big

“Chicago Scraps…,” “San Francisco Abandons…,” their blueprints for urban WiFi, thanks to Earthlink’s issues. So, the next big in wifi, has become the not so big…

Ultimate Word Game

Not talking about search engines-although a good argument could be posited for the “word game” association.
Human Brain Cloud…give it a try.

How to Properly Query a Semantic Search Engine

I have been using Hakia.com when I wax completely wigged out over some info I cannot dig up via Google. Hakia, is a semantic search engine in a Beta phase. I was just reading the blog “over there,” which has an intriguing post on the proper way to test new semantic search engines. The biggest [...]

Some Info I Missed on Powerset

Mark Johnson, a Powerset product manager, reminded me that the search engine also offers up search results with some nifty highlighting so you really can see how relevant your search is. Visually pinpoint the data for which you’re sifting on a page of blah, blah, blah–in a jiffy. Very usable.

Will WebFountain Power the Universe Wide Web (UWW)?

What is WebFountain and why do you have to read documents on semantic web to hear of it?
Compared to IBM’s project, WebFountain, search engines and search directories garner attention because they are the surface accoutrements of the WWW. But after reading a bit on WebFountain, I propose the WWW will be left to such surface [...]

How Keywords May be Replaced by Old Fashioned WORDS

In the Google, Yahoo! universe keywords have become a commodity–the monetary muscle that drives search development, much the same way as Big Oil has driven energy–up til now. A couple posts ago I referred to the next big push in search–natural language. This sounds way academic for most commoners, but really what it means is [...]

Petaflop Supercomputer: What Big Questions Will it Solve?

Thanks to a big OOPS, the world is now privy to pretty specific info on the IBM-National Science Foundation deal–the one where the NSF grants IBM the right to build the world’s biggest supercomputer. Well, IBM currently holds the record with its Blue Gene/L. The next-gen super-duper will apparently take over with the larger (read [...]

Next Wave: Natural Language Search–Alternative to Keyword Centric Search Engines

What if what we’ve come to know as search were supplanted with an alternative? You’d still enter words to conjure the cyber world to commence search, but maybe it would ask for more natural language structures. Powerset, and others that have engaged in semantic web search, are on the leading edge of–hopefully–transforming search processes to [...]

The Next Big

   The next big, humongous, large, giant, monstrous, gigantic, monumental…
The current biggest thing around is really Google. But if you read anything about Google’s history, you quickly realize that the company that has come to revolutionize the way we find information on the internet, how we shop, and even think, was literally spawned from the [...]