Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of[...]
Archive for the ‘Semantic web’ Category
November 12th, 2009 - 6:12 pm § in Semantic web
NY Times RDF
The New York Times has announced that it has made available RDF documents for us to use. They use 30,000 tags to power their Times Topics Pages and they intend to make them all available. They’ve also created a Google groups community for people to give feedback and share their experience wit[...]
November 4th, 2009 - 4:06 pm § in Semantic web
7 Semantic web FireFox extensions
I’ve been using some add-ons for FireFox that enable me to investigate semantic mark-upon any given page if there is any on there. It’s good because it means I can begin to see which sites are all out on Semantic web and which ones aren’t yet. I’m definitely seeing a move t[...]
October 20th, 2009 - 7:52 pm § in Semantic web
SMORE: link up your data
Finally semantic web formats are becoming more mainstream, although many of us in the SEO world are considered slightly odd and confusing for adopting them. We are not alone, search engines have adopted both RDFa and Microformats so it’s not so crazy for web professionals to be paying attenti[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 12:27 am § in Semantic web
“Semantic web” != “semantics”
Alrighty, this post addresses the confusion I see about “semantics” and “the semantic web”. It’s not a complete misunderstanding, but rather an assumption that the semantic web = semantics. This isn’t quite right. I want to illustrate the difference by first prov[...]
