World Wide Web Conference
24 May 2006 by Mother Superior
The World Wide Web Conference 2006 is on this week in Edinburgh and the buzz today surrounded the ‘semantic web.’
For many, the semantic web is the real Web 2.0. I’d recommend a read of a BBC report that discusses the developments. For many web businesses the wait is now on to see how ‘semantic’ search changes the way they are found and therefore, the way they have to programme and populate their sites.
There’s a semantic search engine already on the web. Why not get a head start and have a look at Swoogle.
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Well JB, after looking at Swoogle I reckon this whole semantic web thing is going to have to get a lot more comprehensible before Joe Public will want to use it. In fact I think it’s all a bit of a phantom – how on earth are IT bods going to manage to adhere to worldwide standards of data tagging when hardly anyone even manages to produce valid HTML?
Well I thought I’d take a look into the future with the new ‘semantic’ search but nothing seemed to happen when I searched on swoogle?!
So when its up and running gone will be the days when I type in "a hotel in majorca that costs less than £50 a night, that has a large swimming pool, and is less than five minutes walk from the beach" into google and get no results.. It all sounds very ambitious but good luck to them making it happen. I noticed on the BBC report it said "almost all of the information on webpages is produced by humans for humans" in my experience most of commercial sites are produced by humans for the googlebot. Lets hope a new ‘semantic’ search will mean webpages are not primarily produced for the ‘semantic search bot’