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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘RDF;’
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 with[...]
May 15th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Semantic web
Google semantic web
This is indeed an “I told you so” post. If you don’t recognise the logo above, then this is aimed at you Google have announced (12 May) that they are going to be using “Rich snippets”: “Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search res[...]
March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
