Semantic Web Search Engine

Microsoft, Yahoo, and others have been looking for a way to make their search engines as good as Google. Google has been dominating the search engine for a few years now with the horizontal search they have. In fact most people in the United States have been using Google over any other search engine; about 58.5% of the searches, in January, alone where done on a Google website.

The search engines have been working on the semantic premise in which the information found to offer consumers is brought to the forefront through the wording of the websites content. Despite the fact that the search engines have been using semantic web content to propel themselves along, Google is the only one that has been most successful. Yahoo has made a recent announcement that they are going to try and grow further than Google.

James Simmons just published his view regarding the Semantic web. He says that there are useful jobs being created by the system and there are definitely contenders. He has had a hand in Watson, SWSE, Sindice and others on the semantic front. All of these companies are still in the early stages of development so the technology has yet to be released to the consumers. There is still extensive research being done. DBpedia is just one interesting aspect of the Semantic web in which the machine extracts meaning from things like Wikipedia and then offers it as a presentation.

Yahoo is trying to change the game a little by offering their own thoughts regarding the Semantic premise. Yahoo with Semantic has been able to start launching a program that could potential have Google and Microsoft scurrying to catch up. They may still be small and some are unpublished as of yet, but the fact is they have reached a growing number of individuals with the snippets of semantic value they are creating. It seems that the competitors of Yahoo may be asking how the technology works so that they can try something similar. All companies want to have the most when it comes to consumers and Yahoo might have just found the way to get some of their customers back from Google. With Sindice, Swoogle, and Watson soon to be launched as the Semantic program they may just get what they have been asking for. It will take a while for the sites to be launched however.