October 10, 2008 – 11:56 pm
Google continues its supremacy, despite the clamor over emerging search engines attempting to dethrone it. These providers approach search from different perspectives (semantic, social, community-based) and present their results in fresh forms (design, layout, structure) in the hope that their new package will appeal more to the masses.
read more | digg story
September 20, 2008 – 7:25 am
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Cognition Technologies’ new Semantic Map lets computers — and, conceivably, evil
robots — “understand” the English language in much the same way humans do, based on word tenses and context in a sentence. With this technology, a computer or
search engine can understand virtually every word in the English language — for a vocabulary about ten times that of a typical American college graduate. The system is already being employed in search engines, allowing people to ask questions in human-phrasing instead of unnatural, machine formatted word strings. Researchers say the ability to understand language is an important building block of the nascent Semantic Web, and will make the Replicants of the future extremely difficult to detect.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
By trompyx
|
Posted in Interesting
|
Also tagged Cognition, College Graduate, English Language, English Vocabulary, Gadgets, Nbsp, New Computers, Phrasing, Replicants, Robot, Robots, Search Engine, Semantic Map, Semantic Web, Tenses, Uprising, Word Strings
|
September 7, 2008 – 9:51 pm
Ten years ago today, Google was incorporated. Thus began the meteoric rise of a company that’s become so synonymous with the Internet that its own name has become a verb. After all, it’s even in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, defined as:
to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web
It seems like a long time, but for a company, it’s not. And Google has managed to turn Yahoo! and Microsoft into afterthoughts in terms of search. Remember all those old search engines from so long ago: AltaVista, Lycos and the like?
I’d be remiss if I didn’t write about such a prestigious anniversary, but it would also be silly for me to simply cover everything that everyone else has. So, instead, I’ll let CBS News Science and Technology Correspondent Daniel Sieberg do it, via the embedded report below.
As he says:
You know it’s funny, but not very long ago we were unable to “Google” anyone we knew, the things we wanted to buy, or the places we’d to go. But in just 10 years, Google has become more than a verb, it’s become part of our culture.
Watch the video report:
By trompyx
|
Posted in Google, Interesting
|
Also tagged 10 Years, Afterthoughts, Anniversary, Cbs, Cbs News, Google, Google Engine, Google Search Engine, Long Time, Lycos, Merriam Webster Dictionary, Meteoric Rise, Microsoft, News Science, Science And Technology, Technology Correspondent, Video Report, World Wide Web, Yahoo
|
