Posts tagged: Google

This Week on the Semantic Web – 02 March 2012

This week Tonya Garcia raises questions about Google’s new privacy policy, Roger du Mars discusses the pivotal roles of SQL and NoSQL in the handling of unstructured and big data, and Tim Greene looks at the early reviews of Microsoft’s next-generation OS. Lastly, … Continue reading

This Week on the Semantic Web – 13 Jan 2012

We have barely settled into 2012 and Google are already causing semantic tidal waves. We take a glimpse at Google’s latest revelation ‘Search, Plus Your World’ in the same week that Hendler, co-founder of the Semantic Web, is selected as … Continue reading

This week on the Semantic Web – 11 Nov 2011

Each week we bring you the most thought-provoking news on how the semantic web is changing the way web users discover, interact and exchange online. This week on the PT blog is the story of Dag Kittlaus, the Siri millionaire and his … Continue reading

This Week on the Semantic Web

This week on the blog we’re rounding up some of the most thought-provoking stories we’ve found about the semantic web and how it’s changing the way web users are discovering, interacting with and buying things online. Jon Mitchell enjoys Google … Continue reading

This week on the Semantic Web

This week on the blog we’re rounding up some of the most thought-provoking stories we’ve found about the semantic web, and how it’s changing the way web users are discovering, interacting with and buying things online. Over the past week … Continue reading

Who owns the semantic web?

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A few weeks ago, Google, Bing and Yahoo unveiled a new standard for making webpage data more easily interpretable. Their structured data standard certainly offers a significant jump from a context where their engines can match the keywords contained in documents and rank them according to metrics like link and keyword density, to one where the engines are beginning to understand what the documents are actually about. Continue reading