Semantic Search and What the Future Holds

May 31, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Semantic Search and What the Future Holds

Google’s latest leg of their journey is the unveiling of the Knowledge Graph. This 500 million plus fact-filled database was developed from its own research and its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies. The graph is set to make searching faster and more comprehensive.

Sys-Con Media is responsible for bringing this topic to our attention in their article, “Google’s Knowledge Graph Bringing Semantics to the Masses.” Using semantic technologies, it works with existing search behavior and then kicks it up a notch. Where Google will go with this semantic endeavor will be interesting to watch. Semantic search is still new on the tongue for most IT professionals and foreign to most users. In ten years it will be more common, in twenty it may be what was.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.

 

Posted in , ,

Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.