Comments on: Okay, the web IS a revolution. But its STILL really dumb… http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2007/05/21/okay-the-web-is-a-revolution-but-its-still-really-dumb/ ...even a dice can roll Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:08:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Brendan Lally http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2007/05/21/okay-the-web-is-a-revolution-but-its-still-really-dumb/#comment-2116 Brendan Lally Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:50:21 +0000 http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/?p=59#comment-2116 Niall, 99% of the "stuff' thats on the internet is DUMB. Trying 2 make sense of it and 'infer' some knowledge or relationships is HARD. Google does an OK job at it as a search engine but its limited to its 'search' context and the way its algorithm works (ranking etc.) There are other search engines out there which do a better job but then they are focused by context (music, events etc..) Ditto for all the many internet websites that try and fill a particular niche (e.g. TechCrunch with startup tech news etc..) The Semantic web is supposed 2 help us solve all this but how long do u think b4 the 'web' is semantic-meta-augmented so our new semantic aware browsers can (within context) find the answer 2 your 'How many Web 2.0 companies in the Valley' ??? Methinks it will be a while. hopefully the work DERI (and others are doing) will add some real value to the existing web (as opposed 2 only working for 'new' sites where the owners fill in that semantic meta data). Lal Niall,

99% of the “stuff’ thats on the internet is DUMB.
Trying 2 make sense of it and ‘infer’ some knowledge or relationships is HARD.

Google does an OK job at it as a search engine but its limited to its ’search’ context and the way its algorithm works (ranking etc.)
There are other search engines out there which do a better job but then they are focused by context (music, events etc..)
Ditto for all the many internet websites that try and fill a particular niche (e.g. TechCrunch with startup tech news etc..)

The Semantic web is supposed 2 help us solve all this but how long do u think b4 the ‘web’ is semantic-meta-augmented so our new semantic aware browsers can (within context) find the answer 2 your ‘How many Web 2.0 companies in the Valley’ ???

Methinks it will be a while. hopefully the work DERI (and others are doing) will add some real value to the existing web (as opposed 2 only working for ‘new’ sites where the owners fill in that semantic meta data).

Lal

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