Category Archives: search engine

Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released. From an interview with Nova Spivack … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin

I’d like to quote the mission statement from the SWSE homepage, a “Semantic Web Search Engine” project attempting to crawl the web of data – including RSS, FOAF, RDF vocabularies…

Posted in data portability, linked data, online tools, search engine, semantic web, web evolution | Tagged Computing, FOAF, HTML, Ontology, RDF, Resource Description Framework, RSS, search engine, Semantic publishing, Semantic search, Semantic technology, semantic web, SWSE Official, Technology/Internet, Web Search Engine, World Wide Web | 1 Comment

SemTech 09: Semantic Search Key Points in Hakia Philosophy

Posted on July 9, 2009 by admin

The annual Semantic Technology conference (held in San Josè, California) presented all the major players in the field: Ask, Bing, Google, Hakia, TrueKnowledge, and Yahoo!. One of the main issues debated was regarding Semantic Search. In the presentation held by … Continue reading →

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Real-Time Web: Filtering the Streams of Data

Posted on June 3, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: armangi What does “real-time web” actually mean? Basically, getting all the informations you’re looking for at the very moment they’re are produced, from your sources of choice. It’s definetely some kind of new wave of evolution in the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Application for Choosing Your Creative Commons License

Posted on May 19, 2009 by admin

A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared. This is done by creating a badge through a … Continue reading →

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Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine – First Official Demo

Posted on April 30, 2009 by admin

Two days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University. The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find … Continue reading →

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Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha

Posted on March 17, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: Wolfram Research The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first “computational knowledge engine”, something capable of answering factual question for you. The Wolfram engine is described as “a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes

Posted on March 4, 2009 by admin

Here’s an excellent, concise presentation by Tom Llube explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum. Transcription below: A revolution is happening in the structure of the web itself. It’s gentle and it’s powerful, it’s like tai-chi: you hardly … Continue reading →

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Discovery Search Engine For Browsers: Juice

Posted on February 9, 2009 by admin

Juice is a plug-in for Firefox browsers, which lets you grab text, image or video, providing you with context-relevant information, aiming to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services. You … Continue reading →

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Research Sources for the Deep Web

Posted on February 4, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: ANDI2.. The Invisible or Deep Web is represented by all kind of content not being indexed by broad search engines, even if it’s actually online. In this sense is a complement of the Surface Web. Just think of … Continue reading →

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News Aggregators & Online Search on Newsflashr

Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin

On Newsflashr.com you can track all the latest news among a variety of newsaggregators, all from a single site: a useful tool for web searches of any kind. The site is updated almost in real-time from a variety of services: … Continue reading →