We Will Survive the Linguistic Shift

Keywords or questions: is the difference really that remarkable?
**Keep this in mind: Anyone familiar with the game of Jeopardy knows that an integral part of getting the answer right is the ability to quickly frame it as a question….
A couple of sources I’ve recently read have tried to make a valid argument against any [...]

Ask.com Commercial Challenges Current Search Audience

Less challenge to competitors and more challenge to search audience.
This recent Ask.com TV commercial asks the audience “Does your search engine do this?” Answer: an Ask.com search results page that combines text results with image, video and even music, an assortment of mixed media.
Will messages like this create search users that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]