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A good data browser allows you to navigate the knowledge space by car
Or so I would like to paraphrase David Huynh’s words that I read today on the W3C’s Semantic Web mailing list, where he wrote in response to Michiel Hildebrand: It’s
Freebase Parallax: Browsing ad infinitum
With David Huynh‘s Freebase Parallax, an inspiring new user interface has come out, which conveys a sense of a future where googling isn’t the ultimate way to find information on
Cuil looks good, but does it know German?
After publishing the first Cuil post this morning and adding it to my list of semantic search engines, I realized that I hadn’t checked its foreign language abilities. German is
Cuil – bigger, better, semantic, more – or what?
The blogosphere is abuzz with Cuil – according to its inventors Cuil is “an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.” If it’s got knowledge in it, it
Unlimited Queries with Yahoo! Search BOSS
While Microsoft got all the attention for its agreemant to purchase Powerset, Yahoo! launched its Search BOSS program. BOSS stands for Build your Own Search Service, and it allows owners
Hakia to use Yahoo! BOSS to improve Semantic Analysis
Four days ago I started this “Overview of Semantic Search Engines” blog project in which Hakia was featured – today an update came in via Beyond Search that Hakia is
Having Fun with Search Engines
Admittedly, this is a really lame joke – but the interface of Ireland’s business directory Golden Pages is asking for it: Want to learn more about intelligent search engines? Have
An overview of Semantic Search engines
Not a fortnight seems to go by these days without the announcement of another new Semantic Search engine – hence I though I sit down and draw up my own
Is OpenCalais becoming a Search Engine?
From the very beginning I was wondering, what Reuters is going to do with all that data generated by OpenCalais. So I took a moment and browsed through the Privacy
Yahoo! embraces the Semantic Web
What has been in the shade for several months now steps brightly into the sun: Yahoo! is heavily turning towards the Semantic Web. The underlying open-search-strategy is based on putting