Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results? - ReadWr. 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? The Future of the Web. The semantic web can be quite a hard concept to grasp when discussed in an abstract way: the above video is a particularly useful, clear exposition of the enormous promise and power the future of knowledge sharing holds.
Parallax, a novel browsing interface designed by David Huynh to manipulate Freebase, shows how contextual connections can be made with machine readable data to provide a much richer results set which in turn can spawn fascinating visual representations, and more. Freebase is the foundational 800lb gorilla in the semantic space, quietly building momentum to create a 'global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone....It could be described as a data commons'.