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the semantics of search – is it Web 3.0 yet?

Monday, March 26, 2007

Richard McManus of Read/WriteWeb has been talking to the founders of a semantic web search engine that has a focus on natural language processing methods and analyses sentences in order to perform searches.
Hakia will come out of beta towards the end of 2007. The CEO of Hakia, Riza Berkan, was invited to make comparisons between [...]

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beeb catalogue is bigger than google earth now

Monday, May 1, 2006

More from Ben Hammersley and his friends: the experimental prototype of the BBC Programme Catalogue has been released. Courtesy of some slick work with Ruby on Rails by Hammersley, Matt Biddulph and others. Having worked briefly last year at ABC Archives on databases similar to those released into the Internet wild by these fellows, I [...]

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talk ‘n’ type – where have I been?

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Stowe Boyd, (a new discovery for this site), reviews the continuing closure of the divide between email and chat on Gmail, and ends with a charming digression on his interest in having more people-centred search options in this kind of multipurpose archiving software. Good for you, mate. Some kind of Vivisimo product (see Clusty in [...]

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another pixel in the wall

Friday, February 3, 2006

Over at Blogsavvy, James Farmer has engaged a few Structured Blogging buffs in an interesting discussion. I’ve chimed in with a remark on a question I found on someone’s blog somewhere about searching blog posts by date using regular search engines. So far no-one tags blog post dates, do they?
I’ve yet to read the paper [...]

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notes to self re the structure of blogging

Monday, January 23, 2006

Mary Hodder spoke at this conference in November – with some luck I’ll remember to get hold of a copy of her talk on Engines of Meaning. In the meantime I’ve posted a question at the Microformats blog (see sidebar, Research and Search tools) on whether the ability to search the Web for blog posts [...]

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