readwriteweb:
Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing. Instead, Bing only relies on Alpha to answer queries about nutrition. A query for (Read More)
www.semanticweb.com:
Jennifer ZainoSemanticWeb.com ContributorGartner this month released its influential Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology report, which assesses vendor capabilities in areas such as enterprise and federated searc (Read More)
Submitted by martinrstone
from Google Reader:
Extracting meaning from the Web is huge project that is very difficult to do at large scale. Keyword search only skims the surface of meaning locked in Web pages. Various semantic search technologies try to go deeper by add (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Robert Scoble and I ran into freshly-acquired FriendFeed cofounder and CEO Paul Buchheit at a brunch on Sunday. I pulled out my trusty Android myTouch and with his permission asked him a few questions about the sale to Faceb (Read More)
SemanticUniverse.com:
MODERATOR:Wen Ruan, TextWisePANELISTS:Ronald M. Kaplan, Powerset division of bingChristian F. Hempelmann, RiverGlass, Inc.Riza Berkan, hakia Semantic Search technology in the Semantic Web community is often understood as retr (Read More)
VentureBeat:
When it comes to PR strategy for launching companies, everyone’s got advice.Some think there’s some sort of magic to it. A story in the New York Times today about how public relations is done in Silicon Valley perpetuates tha (Read More)
SemanticUniverse.com:
This Keynote is presented in six parts.Moderated by: Carla Thompson, Guidewire GroupSpeakers: Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! SearchPeter Norvig, GoogleRiza Berkan, hakiaScott Prevost, Powerset division of bingTomasz Imielinski, Ask.c (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is precisely the reason why Canadian t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
I've been following a fascinating 3-part series of posts this week by Greg Boutin, founder of Growthroute Ventures. The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3. (Read More)
Mashable!:
There’s always an urge to declare a major new player in search as a “Google killer” because of its unique approach to the space, its celebrated founding team, or copious amounts of industry hype. Wolfram Alpha has a bit of a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The following post was originally titled The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services and ran a week and a half ago. It's a slow morning around here and we thought readers who missed this the first time m (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is and they are starting companies based on the idea. In the following post we take (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Regular search engines such as Google and Yahoo use statistics to make sense of the Web. They count links, keywords, and other items on a page to determine its rank in search results. Semantic search engines try to actually (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
A new seed-stage fund has quietly emerged in Silicon Valley called Quest Venture Partners. Based in Menlo Park and managed by brothers Andrew and Marcus Ogawa, the firm invests between $100,000 and $1.5 million in nascent dig (Read More)
Industry Standard News and Predictions:
I saw it on Twitter so it must be true: Microsoft is relaunching/rebranding its Live Search service.Based on the strength of a single Tweet ["Played today with Live search upcoming (to be rebranded) launch pre-beta. I like th (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At the end of last year we presented our list of the top 10 Semantic Web Apps of 2008. ReadWriteWeb reader Zoltán Andrejkovics wrote in to us afterwards, suggesting that we do a post looking at what Semantic Web apps we'd lik (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
OK, we know: Hindsight is 20/20 and mocking past predictions is cheap and easy. If we think we're so smart why don't we make some predictions of our own?Whatever.Let's indulge in some schadenfreude and review some of the goof (Read More)