http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/05/24/world-wide-web-conference/ News and views from the UK's best hosting provider Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/05/24/world-wide-web-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Darren Fri, 26 May 2006 09:06:05 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=113#comment-46 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' 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’

]]> http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/05/24/world-wide-web-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Chris Norton Thu, 25 May 2006 09:44:20 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=113#comment-45 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 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?

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