Perfect Search
• Semantic Web
– RDF
– Objects, relationships
– Reasoning
• Examples
– Dbpedia Vs. Wikipedia
– Del.icio.us
• How is this possible:
– Need taxonomy --- Directory, Folksonomy
– IBM’s WebFountain
– What Paul Ford has to say
• What is the use of the Semantic Web?
– Better search
– E-commerce (there is a downside as well)
How Search is Evolving
• New search interfaces
– From a cell phone or personal device (remember the
UPC scanning example
– GPS
• Aggressive personalization
• New types of data
– RFID (http://www.news.com/2010-1069-980325.html)
– Blogs