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What if the biggest web company bought one of the central semantic web players?
Well, exactly this happened yesterday: Google bought Metaweb – provider of Freebase. Freebase is an important hub in the linked data cloud providing 12 million entities with uniform resource identifiers
Linking Open Data to Thesaurus Management
The Vienna-based company punkt. netServices is just about to release a demo version of their PoolParty service, a SKOS-based thesaurus management tool with linked data capabilities. I had the chance
1000-and-one pulldowns
Image by wocrig via Flickr Luckily, times have come, where semantic search techniques have found their way to enhance knowledge providing theme portals. Nearly once a week a new knowledge
Linked Data is not owl:sameAs Semantic Web
While some people work heavily on the extension of the semantic web infrastructure, like Talis Connected Commons or OpenLink´s Amazon EC2 Instantiation others have started to bring the semantic web
the next google
Image via Wikipedia Maybe you have noticed it already; today in the morning something new appeared at Google’s search engine interface: A bunch of corresponding search-suggestions based on your search
Google and the Semantic Web: About Quad Stores and URIs
Just recently Google launched another interesting service called “In Quotes”. It delivers quotes from stories linked to from Google News and users can compare opinions of e.g. politicians in a
Why Wolfram Alpha won´t replace Google
If Nova Spivack and Doug Lenat are positive with what they have seen from Wolfram Alpha, I am also close of being convinced that the internet community won´t be dissapointed
Semantic-like tools to pimp your blog
Presently more and more tools come up in the Web 2.0 – Domain, which bring semantic technologies into blogger´s everyday life. Zemanta was for sure a break-through in annotation of
Springer´s new semantic search engine
Just recently Springer came up with AuthorMapper, a great new tool to explore the scientific world, see trends on a map and find related articles etc.: AuthorMapper, an online tool
Pimp your Google
Sure, that´s not the end of the flagpole – but “a little semantics goes a long way” (Jim Hendler): With two Firefox add-ons, you can pimp your Google and you