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Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search

Posted by Zonk on from the does-whatever-a-spider-can dept.

RobMcCool writes "At Stanford KSL, we really like the Semantic Web. So we've taken many of our favorite web sites, scraped them, and put together a huge pile of RDF, which we'll let you download. We've used that RDF to create a search application, in the spirit of Google Q & A or Microsofts recently announced MSN Search extensions. Our search can answer simple factual queries like the previously discussed population of Portugal but can also answer some more complex ones. We also have a smart autocomplete system, type "tom hanks birth" slowly to see it in action (best with Firefox). We're looking for people to be a part of this search system by running their own search sites, and by putting their data on the Semantic Web. Come check it out!"

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  1. From the check it out link... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Search on TAP was built to answer the following types of queries: There are also two actors named Harrison Ford: the one who played Han Solo, and a silent film star from the 1920's."

    That's nice and all but who shot first and is there a mash up of both scenes with crazy alien bar music mixed with 20's sinister piano.

  2. slashdotted by maharg · · Score: 2, Funny

    faster than a thousand speeding gazelles

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    @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
  3. awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...now I can finally search for "images of women with breasts larger than 36D"!

  4. I'm still trying to figure out... by rah1420 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...not only what the Semantic Web is about, but more pragmatically why this is in "Hardware." :)

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