Semantic Web Has Spawned Trivia

What ever happened to Hexbot?
Semantic web actually has a growing bunker of trivia tidbits.
In spring 2004 a steady barrage of press releases heralded HexBot as an all around digital life form that was designed to do it all. But what happened to this semantic web prodigy? The domain name has been sold– Hexbot MIA.
Hmmmm. Maybe [...]

New Biomedical Semantic Search Engine

GoPubMed’s Cool Feature…   
GoPubMed is a new semantic search engine designed to deliver the ultimate research muscle to the biomedical, medical, and life sciences realm. Researchers, scientists, and general users may gain quicker more “cross-pollinated” search results for deeply layered data requests.
One of the more intriguing features of GoPubMed is the “Hot Research.” This is [...]

Who is Cyc?

Some search engines vie for fairy dust, others just ante up the goods.

Semantic search engines vie to harness the same fairy dust as did Google–once upon a time. But charismatic, enigmatic, and dismissive geeky upstarts that make billions upon billions of dollars of course earn as many foes as they do dough. My point is [...]

Semantic Suggestion

New Search “Signage” Fills the Gap Between Now and Later
On 9/28 the Hakia blog post stirred the pot of interesting semantic web issues–my essential takeway: are we at a point in which we are technologically mature enough to handle SW, or are our behaviors and satisfactions attached to technology (current search engines) too rooted to [...]