The IT world borrowed the taxonomy concept from biology to compensate for the fact that users didn’t know what to type in the search box. It was hard for them to figure out what a Web site was about and zero in on their area of interest. The taxonomy (a hierarchical list of topics) served … Continue reading
Originally published June 2009 Until recently, information about the Semantic Web has been either visionary and theoretical or highly technical. Now, with the appearance of applications such as Google’s “rich snippets,” Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, and Reuters OpenCalais, the future is tantalizingly close (see De facto standards for semantic search?). It’s time to face two issues that … Continue reading
