John Davies, head of next generation web research at BT, was Web 3.0 semantic search is gaining momentum.
Now the RDF and OWL ontology languages have been firmly established by industry body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) we ought to see better search applications.
Yahoo is supporting Web 3.0 semantic web with a new project called Search Monkey. The search giant will be asking web site providers to make available more structured data so that the firm can present it in a less random way.
According to Davies in trials search enhanced by this technology recorded a 15 per cent increase in relevancy.
The question is whether a 15% improvement is enough to worry Google.
Furthermore, will it matter as the foundation for web 4.0 using Virtual Worlds gather momentum?
Remember, Virtual Worlds are closed systems and cannot be accessed by external search engines! (please refer to AI 15).
