Webware web 2.0 trends for 2008

Editor’s pick..

Semantic search Search engines are finally learning how real users think. While popularity-based engines (such as Google) work well, there’s more potential in engines that go beyond link analysis to parsing the meaning of pages. Powerset is one of the most anticipated upcoming semantic search engines, but you can see semantic search at work, on a much smaller scale, in smaller projects such as the wine-aficionado site Snooth; it speaks only wine lingo, but it “understands” wine terms to correctly match “big” with “fruity,” for example.

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