In a message dated 8/22/2009 10:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
Because there is no need to determine what the meaning of the particular term or keyword is, the pages it returns generally deal with the same concept or concepts that you entered. For instance, if you enter "Flower" and "Bee", it will find pages where these two concepts overlap - those are pages about pollination.>>
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This seems big to me. It's creating, in a mindless way, semantic relationships between keywords.
This has been thought about for a long time it seems, but no one has really solved the annoying issue of how to avoid most false positives. I don't think you can avoid them all because English is so ambiguous but the use of cross-links is a major leap forward.
Very few people are going to link-up concepts that are basely minor, but scan all pages for the links highlights the semantic connetions between concepts. You could even take it one step further, use the semantic web to "point out" semantic connections that are not directly obvious. Such as a leap from beekeeper to honeycomb. Try to do that using Google. You get thousands of bad hits before you get the one good one.
Search for "Hillbillies" and "Movie", using a semantic web you get the exact hit you want.
W.J.
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In a message dated 8/22/2009 10:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
Because there is no need to determine what the meaning of the particular term or keyword is, the pages it returns generally deal with the same concept or concepts that you entered. For instance, if you enter "Flower" and "Bee", it will find pages where these two concepts overlap - those are pages about pollination.>>
This seems big to me. It's creating, in a mindless way, semantic relationships between keywords.
The search for "bees" and "flowers" suggests "pollination". I do not see anything mindless about that. That is a human association. In another one, honey comes from sap in flowers, and gets flavour from them. So, the idea is to rank words-connecting-each higher than the AND-search alone, while the AND-search gets a higher rank than the OR-search. Works for me. You can get similar results on web pages if users do a good job of filling out descriptions, keywords, classification, and title tags. Pollination and honey should be at the top.
This has been thought about for a long time it seems, but no one has really solved the annoying issue of how to avoid most false positives. I don't think you can avoid them all because English is so ambiguous but the use of cross-links is a major leap forward.
Very few people are going to link-up concepts that are basely minor, but scan all pages for the links highlights the semantic connetions between concepts. You could even take it one step further, use the semantic web to "point out" semantic connections that are not directly obvious. Such as a leap from beekeeper to honeycomb. Try to do that using Google. You get thousands of bad hits before you get the one good one.
Search for "Hillbillies" and "Movie", using a semantic web you get the exact hit you want.
W.J.
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