3 out of 5 Major Search Engines Use Semantic Tech
Following my earlier blog, I ran into this, also from Sitepoint.com: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/08/3-out-of-5-major-search-engines-are-using-semantic-tech-what-is-your-search-engine-using/
This blog elaborates on services trying to make search more contextually aware, and discusses the newest additions to the semantic tech-driven search engines, like Ask.com.
From the blog: “The Web is moving from a ‘Web of Documents’ to a ‘Web of Things‘. Google rules the Web of documents, their PageRank and other hidden secrets love unstructured goo. But a structured Web of objects and connections is a new game.As more and more sites start publishing embedded data and more intelligent search engines come online to consume and re-mix this, we will see a resurgence of innovation in search. And more importantly, in *finding*!”