Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? - ReadWriteWeb. In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information.
Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's name? The answers to these and other factual questions are now displayed above natural search results in Google and the information is structured in the traditional subject-predicate-object format, or "triples," of semantic web parlance.
The answers aren't found structured that way on the web pages they come from - Google appears to be parsing the semantic structure from semi or unstructured data. We're sure that Google's been doing this analysis for some time behind the scenes, but for the company to expose the data in this structured way and to include a link to view other sources appears new to everyone we've asked about it so far. Why is This Important? 10 Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later - ReadWriteWeb. In November 2007, we listed and reviewed 10 promising Semantic Web apps.
A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back in with each of the 10 products and see how they're progressing. What's changed over the past year and what are these companies working on now? The products are, in no particular order: Freebase, Powerset, Twine, AdaptiveBlue, Hakia, Talis, TrueKnowledge, TripIt, Calais (was ClearForest), Spock.
In our next post in this series, we're going to publish a completely new list of Semantic apps to watch! That's right, 10 more Semantic apps. Freebase Freebase is an open, semantically marked up database of information. Freebase has been one of the more hyped companies in Semantic Web, leading to some skepticism that the product is too much like Wikipedia and offers nothing much new.
However, we noted some concerns with Freebase - "big gaps in the data" along with usability issues. Calais (was ClearForest) Powerset Twine Hakia TripIt AdaptiveBlue. The Twitter Gold Mine & Beating Google to the Semantic Web - O'Reilly Radar. There’s always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate.
In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said “We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that’s no longer the case, so we changed the plan quite a bit… We’ve moved revenue higher on our list of priorities…”. I believe Twitter, potentially, has an incredible business model. In The New York Times R&D Labs, where I work, we’ve been talking a lot about ‘smart content’, both in relation to advertising, search and news delivery.
For the past 157 years (that’s how old the newspaper is) we’ve essentially delivered ‘dumb content’ to people’s doorsteps. You and I, irrespective of interests, location etc. have received the same newspaper on our doorsteps every morning. This also changes the advertising model where ads become even smarter. So what does this have to do with a Twitter business model?