Monday, September 20, 2004
A9.com - shortcut to the semantic web?
Lots of discussions about the semantic web, and being able to effectively search for meaning and knowledge, not for keywords - some general themes of the mement (and of HCI conferences) for sure, but here's a shortcut route to that information. By choosing and integrating different sources, Amazon's A9 search engine provides categorised information that they claim to be more useful and useable than Google's keywork search, and yet which doesn't need the infrastructure of RDF or the a.i. technologies of semantic searching.....
I'm planning to use it for the next month or so and will report my findings after that. Initial tests have proved interesting.....
Lots of discussions about the semantic web, and being able to effectively search for meaning and knowledge, not for keywords - some general themes of the mement (and of HCI conferences) for sure, but here's a shortcut route to that information. By choosing and integrating different sources, Amazon's A9 search engine provides categorised information that they claim to be more useful and useable than Google's keywork search, and yet which doesn't need the infrastructure of RDF or the a.i. technologies of semantic searching.....
I'm planning to use it for the next month or so and will report my findings after that. Initial tests have proved interesting.....
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