mtb167
01-09-2007, 04:19 PM
So I've been reading about the "semantic web" lately. HEre's the rundown:
Current Search engines will soon be obsolete because of the "semantic web." Meaning, when you type something into google such as:
"Which continent has the most species of poisonous snakes"
The search engine will return:
"Australia" and to the best of my knowledge - that is all they will return. Another more complex example would be if you typed in something like:
"Which Brand of Camera is the best?"
It would return:
"Well most people tend to say Canon offers the best digital camera for quality, kodak for price and FujiFilm for using as a paper weight."
What my understanding is, is that the next generation search engines will return this but no web pages along with this. And They will be using a conglomerate of web pages to extract this data. This raises two questions:
1. If the most relevant information is extracted and protrayed at the search result level... what will be the business model be? Where will the ads go? Will these engines be financially viable?
2. It would seem to me that this new search engine, if it does not distribute traffic like the search engines currently do, will be under some sort of copyright infringement, because they will be mining sites and lifting content in order to make lots of money for themselves. Will these search engines be legally viable.
What am I missing? Can someone please fill me in?
Current Search engines will soon be obsolete because of the "semantic web." Meaning, when you type something into google such as:
"Which continent has the most species of poisonous snakes"
The search engine will return:
"Australia" and to the best of my knowledge - that is all they will return. Another more complex example would be if you typed in something like:
"Which Brand of Camera is the best?"
It would return:
"Well most people tend to say Canon offers the best digital camera for quality, kodak for price and FujiFilm for using as a paper weight."
What my understanding is, is that the next generation search engines will return this but no web pages along with this. And They will be using a conglomerate of web pages to extract this data. This raises two questions:
1. If the most relevant information is extracted and protrayed at the search result level... what will be the business model be? Where will the ads go? Will these engines be financially viable?
2. It would seem to me that this new search engine, if it does not distribute traffic like the search engines currently do, will be under some sort of copyright infringement, because they will be mining sites and lifting content in order to make lots of money for themselves. Will these search engines be legally viable.
What am I missing? Can someone please fill me in?