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Search and the Semantic Web

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Semantic search is one of those terms that people are throwing around a lot lately, but it is raising a lot of questions. For instance, what exactly is semantic search? Although the term itself is still being defined, Gil Elbaz of Factual tells WebProNews that it is about structured data and how search engines can make use of all this data.

As he explains, this data could be in the form of rows and columns and databases. There are, however, many challenges for the search engines. While traditional search engines do a great job of crawling the information on the Web, it is hard for them to understand the human brain and provide all the right answers for users.

In actuality, the traditional search engines could be called semantic engines since they have tried to make some structure of the Web. Fortunately, there are innovations such as microformats and databases that help publishers explain their information, which helps the engines. For example, Factual even provides databases and tools to help publishers build structured data.

In the end, the actual meaning of “semantic search” is still up for debate. Elbaz did say, “There’s no semantic search; it’s search. It’s getting the user exactly what they want.”

How do you define semantic search?

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