Yahoo and Semantic Search

March 14, 2011

I thought Yahoo was into Bing.com search. Bing.com, of course, has semantic functions galore. But Yahoo?

You can learn about Yahoo and its view of semantic search at “Be a Part of the Next Wave of Web Search.”

Unlike companies rolling out a new product or service, Yahoo is running a competition. The requirements? Here’s a snippet:

… the competition calls for participants to answer queries varying
in complexity, based on a set of structured data collected from
the Web. The results will be presented at the 4th International
Workshop on Semantic Search, co-located with the World Wide Web
Conference 2011 in Hyderabad, India.

Sounds good. Will Microsoft engineers enter? Will there be some Googlers?

Yahoo seems to think that semantics are going to help users cope with Web content and improve relevance. Semantic methods will help filter, cull, and hone information. Yahoo’s goal is to make search more useful. via semantics.

But what about that Bing.com tie up? What about Microsoft’s semantics from Powerset to Cognition Technologies?

Micheal Cory, March 14, 2011

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Search, Semantic, Technology, Text processing, Yahoo

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