The Semantic Puzzle

Andreas Blumauer

Pimp your Google

Sure, that´s not the end of the flagpole – but “a little semantics goes a long way” (Jim HendlerJames Hendler (born April 2, 1957) is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.): With two Firefox add-ons, you can pimp your GoogleGoogle Inc. is a multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was ... and you will get (1) a better overview over the search results, (2) kind of a moderated search and (3) information from Wikipedia along with the results.

Install Cloudlet and Googlepedia (Don´t forget to donate!) and you will see something like this:

pimp_your_google

Sure, both “mashups” are not based on RDF, and the “TagCloud” is not as accurate as we wished, but let us be patient again. At least this picture makes end-users yearning for a bit more semantics (which goes a long way…) on top of the usual lists of search results.

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